Doctors

(A)   The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000.

(B)   Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000.

(C)   Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services. 
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Guns

(A)   The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000. 

(Yes, that's 80 million)

(B)   The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500. 

(C)   The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI

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So, technically, doctors are thousands of times more dangerous than gun owners so how about not perpetuating some misleading statement that gun owners are somehow so miraculously dangerous and guns are the bane of society.

If we want to talk about facts, instead of unfettered, unreasonable, illogical, and unsupportable fear then don't tell me that guns need banned.  Simply, banning guns is one of the more unintelligent things someone can state.  I’m not suggesting we should ban any of the things (at least most) that are more dangerous and life threatening than guns.  If someone really cared there are a list of things that are more dangerous in addition to just doctors, such as...

• The Drug War (which I actually would say lets put a ban on it – get rid of it, it kills more people than the drugs themselves probably)
• Driving (cars in general)
• Pools (you know, swimming, it kills thousands per year)
• Smoking (cigarettes are not your friend)
• Armed Police (which I would NOT ban, but they do kill a LOT of people)
• ...and the list goes on and on.

Anyway, this is just frustrating, I’m alive today because I was armed so it kind of hits home when some moron tells me I should be dead.  I like being alive, and am going to stick to that philosophy.

Often, education is directly correlated to intelligence in conversation.  It is fallacy that they are directly connected.  What is even less correlated is formal education versus intelligence.  Formal education is in no way related to intelligence.  It could possibly help someone, to have a good education or a good formal education, to appear intelligent.  But a good education does not make someone intelligent.

This is where the topic borders on non-political correctness.

Intelligence is, if anything, more of a genetic trait.  Education is not.  Education can be equalized in offering but not in acceptance.  Intelligence cannot be equalized in any way except through genetic manipulation and direct and indirect control of an infant through childhood upbringing.  We can to some degree control education, but we as a people can in no way control intelligence yet.

So when someone blurbs on, rather stupidly, about someone being educated or not educated, what they often mean is that they are or are not intelligent.  This is a kind, or faux sophisticated way, to say someone is or is not intelligent.  It's at worse a complete misnomer in concept and at best just entitling the declaring individual, less intelligent or thinking than they'd like to superficially provide.

Has this gone all sophisticated?  Maybe so, but there are mostly factual realities in these statements, with a slight bit of arguable philosophy.

In summary, intelligence does not equate to education and education does not equate to intelligence.

Period.