[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16425]
[From the U.S. 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 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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