Trading Guns for Drugs

According to statistics compiled by Mike Adams of the Natural News, you are 62 times more likely to be killed by your doctor than by a violent shooting. Commenting on the 106,000 yearly deaths from nonerror, adverse effects of medications, Adams states, "To reach this number from outbreaks of violent shootings, you'd have to see an Aurora Colorado Batman movie massacre take place every hour of every day, 365 days a year."

These statistics come from combining two meta-analyses, namely: 1) The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26, 2000, and 2) "Deaths: Final Data for 2007". National Vital Statistics Reports (CDC) 58(19): 11, painting a grim picture of the medical industry and a caricature of the Aurora theater shooting. 

Another statistical breakdown by the Benton County News Tribune from November 17th, 1999 shows that while the number of gun owners in the U.S. was 80 million (that year), the number of yearly accidental gun deaths (amongst all age groups) was a mere 1,500. This means that the number of accidental deaths per gun owner per year was 0.0000188. Comparatively, the number of total active physicians, according to the 2001 edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, was 720,855. The statistics found 12,000 deaths yearly from unnecessary surgeries; 7,000 deaths yearly from medication errors in hospitals; 20,000 deaths yearly from other errors in hospitals; 80,000 deaths yearly from infections in hospitals; 106,000 deaths yearly from non-error, negative effects of drugs. This comes to a total of 225,000. This comes to 0.354 deaths per physician per year. 

In summary, doctors are 18,800 times more deadly than gun owners.

What does this tell us in light of the fact that the government, per Obamacare, has just mandated health care reform. It is ironic, in the face of these statistics, that bullets flying in excess on the big screen will earn a film a "Restricted" rating, but drug commercials air indiscriminately on prime time television. 

We're trading in our guns for drugs, and the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty will expedite the process.  Slated to be signed by world leaders today, the Treaty will launch an initiative against gun owners everywhere, as international gun control law threatens to trump the U.S. Second Amendment.

I don't mean to belabor this point, but I believe this is the big game changer.