"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
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> On 4/26/2009 6:09 PM, somebody wrote:

> > See, I can use fawlty reasoning too...

> Faulty reasoning my a**, medical errors alone account for more deaths
> every year than gun handling errors.  And forget all that stuff about
> "you're already sick, so you're more likely to die."  I'm talking about
> cases where the death is directly the result of a mistake, not where you
> went to see a doctor and they couldn't cure you.

Isn't it a bit unfair to compare mistakes by gun owners to mistakes by
doctors? I mean after all, a mistake with a gun results in a miss or a
non-fatal wound by definition, while the only doctor who kills intentionally
that I can name is Dr Kevorkian.

Really, where do you get the numbers from? What constitutes a mistake? If a
cancer patient's life is extended for decades through administrations of
hundereds of medications, and if the last medication was to much or too
little, does that end up in the mistake column?

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