The medical establishment in both the United States and Australia are big on gun control. But, as observed by a News article, August 23, 2016 ( http://www.newstarget.com/2016-08-23-doctors-are-killing-2450-more-americans-than-all-gun-related-deaths-combined.html), doctors are killing an incredible 2,450 percent more Americans than all gun-related deaths combined! An American is 64 times more likely to be killed by a doctor through mistakes and mishaps than by gunmen.
In 2011 there were 31,940 gun deaths and 19,766 of them were suicides. That makes the homicide figure 12,174. By the way, doctors usually chirp in and say that without guns we would not have gun deaths by suicide. True enough – we will have suicides still by other means that could harm others such as jumping off buildings.
Doctors in the US kill 783,936 people a year; there are about 700,000 doctors in America compared to 80 million gun owners. Thus doctors kill, on average, one patient each!
Another News article August 23, 2016 ( http://www.vaccines.news/2016-08-23-vaccines-kill-more-people-than-sharks-alligators-bears-snakes-and-spiders-combined-2.html), points out that in the US, vaccines kill more people than dangerous creatures such as sharks, alligators, bears, snakes and spiders combined!
These are the statistics on shark attacks in Australia, from https://taronga.org.au/conservation/conservation-science-research/australian-shark-attack-file/2014:
Australian Shark Attack Statistics for 2014:
|
State |
Unprovoked Cases Recorded |
Fatal |
Injured |
Uninjured |
|
NSW |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
|
QLD |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
SA |
4 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
|
WA |
2 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
VIC |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
TAS |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
NT |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total - Unprovoked |
11 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
|
Total - Provoked |
12 |
3 |
8 |
1 |
|
Total - All Cases |
23 |
5 |
14 |
4 |
The US Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS), cites around 5,000 deaths annually, with an estimated 3,900 of these deaths being directly caused by vaccines. This represents only around 10 percent of actual injury and death, so that the annual US death rate from vaccines is about 39,000.
In Australia there were 10 deaths from the flu immunisation program alone form 2009 to 2012: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/deaths-linked-to-anti-flu-vaccines/story-e6frg8y6-1226441791947. And that is just one vaccine.
Death from aggressive animals is but a drop in this ocean. Hence if guns should be banned on safety grounds, then so should doctors, and probably a lot of big Pharma medicines!