[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 26, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H7006-H7007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    ACCIDENTAL HOSPITAL DEATHS ARE HIGHER THAN ACCIDENTAL GUN DEATHS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, 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

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 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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