Reply to "Doctors vs. Guns"

I love this argument and could take either side. In my wonderful world of advertising, we don’t bother with the truth, since we can always find statistics needed to support any particular point of view we want to present.

Here are a few interesting ones:

2.2% of all U.S. respondents reported that they were the victim of at least one assault or threat with a gun in the last five years. In England and Wales, that number was 2.4%. Gun ownership is a legal requirement in Switzerland. Switzerland has the second highest handgun ownership and handgun murder rate in the industrialized world. So watch out for drive by shootings next time you’re in Zurich.

As for doctors, here’s a good one…

“What’s the difference between doctors and God?”
“God doesn’t think he’s a doctor.”

Anyhow, if you knew as many doctors as I do, then you too would rather spend time with gun owners than doctors. That is, until you get shot, at which time your criteria changes quickly.