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James Traficant: accidental deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in America reached 120,000 per year. Meanwhile, gun deaths have…

On the recordJuly 26, 2000
accidental deaths caused by doctors and hospitals in America reached 120,000 per year. Meanwhile, gun deaths have dropped 35 percent. In fact, accidental gun deaths dropped to 1,500 last year. Think about it. We have got hospitals slicing and dicing American people like Freddie Kruger, and Congress is passing more gun laws. Beam me up. There is something wrong in America when one is 80 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than Smith & Wesson. Think about it, 80 to 1. Maybe we need a gun in surgery. I yield back the fact that the second amendment was not written to cover just duck hunters.

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Discussing the comparison of accidental deaths from medical errors to gun deaths.

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