I'll explain it to you - but Just This Once - OK?
[explanation of satire]
It isn't supposed to be 'accurate'. It didn't (yet) happen.
(Nor is it necessary to have numbers (in decimal or octal) in order to make - either comparative statements or to lampoon those who live by numbers and deductions from them - ignoring all human feelings ABOUT what it was - the numbers putatively 'measured' or seemed-to)
It is in response to Mike's suggestion... mention guns and you'll get a response!
Which was my point FROM THE BEGINNING:
The AMA's ongoing record of non-self-regulation was looked into by YAN gruntled or anti-gruntled or dis-gruntled OUTRAGED gun owner - rilly upset that some people just fucking despise his pet toy - yes: *his* lovely toy.
ie *ONLY* as a ploy:
to vindicate ??? his beloved guns, attacked by a mean doctor who said:
They make a bloody mess of people I have to work on.
(I also suppose that Drs who treat gun victims daily *WOULD* bloody well HATE GUNS - if they are both sane AND Doctors too.)
THAT was the gun guy's SOLE actual Interest! - screw the AMA Doctors' execrable record: as a matter of General Interest\ufffd !!!
His aim was only: being One-Up on the bad, mean Doctor's er savage attack on guns (each of which presumably has an owner or two (since some gun owners seem to share?))
[/explanation of satire]
It may not be a particularly good satire; it was just a spontaneous response to Mike's remark + the *so evident sole motive* for the AMA-Dr. thing even being mentioned.
(as to statistics of any kind about guns, from the NRA - I look on them precisely as I look on statistics of any kind about computers, from Microsoft)
That's it. That's all there is,
Ashton