Guns don't kill people...

rossowmn

Doctors:

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

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

(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%

***Statistics courtesy of the U.S.Dept of Health & Human Services



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 0.001875%

***Statistics courtesy of the FBI


So statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous
than gun owners.

Remember, guns don't kill people, doctors do.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE
DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors
before this gets completely out of hand!!!

Out of concern for the public at large, I have withheld statistics on lawyers for fear the shock would cause people to panic and seek medical attention.






Mateomasfeo

"I am what I am!" - Popeye

rossowmn

...Pit bulls do, although I think it was probably the two Pomeranians and the cat. See story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051001665.html

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rossowmn

Husbands and Wives that come home early do[:D]

Larry the cable guy

rossowmn

Nearly 1,000 years ago, a young Gaelic man came to a violent end
among the dispersed farmsteads of northwestern Ireland.

This, we know, thanks to a 215-year-old tree and a hearty Irish wind.



The young man's remains were discovered tangled in the roots of the tree
when it blew over sometime before May near Collooney in County Sligo, Ireland.
That's when an archaeologist hired by Ireland's National Monuments Service
excavated the remains.

The lower leg bones remained in the grave,
but the upper part of the body was tangled up in the roots,
according to Marion Dowd of Sligo-Leitrim Archaeological Services.



Radiocarbon dating suggests the remains date back to the early medieval period,
from 1030 to 1200. The man, who appeared to be about 17 to 20 years old,
had what seem to be knife injuries to the ribs and hand, Dowd said.

"We can assume that the young man came from a local Gaelic family
(because the Anglo-Norman invasion didn't occur until 1169
and our radiocarbon date suggests the burial pre-dates this),"
Dowd told CNN by email.
"So it could be a local conflict/battle, or personal dispute,
that resulted in his death."

It appears the man received a formal Christian burial
as his head lain to the west with the corpse lying on its back, she said.
Nothing else was found with the remains, she said.

The discovery was made in a rural area.
Records from the 19th-century suggest the presence of a church
and graveyard in the general area, Dowd said.

No traces of those remain, she said.

The skeleton could yet yield more clues.
Analysis of the remains continues, according to Dowd.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/europe/ireland-tree-skeleton-discovery-feat/index.html

post script:

several hundred years later, firearms would be invented in China.

mond

yeh, i like the bit which suggests the pits can be as timid as a labradore retrever..huh! i dont fancy the farm labradores ,i seen , waaaaaallllkies!![:D]

greeker375

We got the word mid-day yesterday. He lived about 20 min's south of here. I'd done appraisals on his street several times and those dogs always made me more aware than any other steet with their barking. Never trusted them!

KrisW

I have a friend that raises bulldogs and the only one that I really dont watch is the 110lb male thats running loose. All the rest I dont trust.

CA sucks

They were his dogs?
Odd.... I wouldnt expect them to turn on the owner, ussually they are protective of their owner.... i guess the 3 or so of them voted for a new pack leader....

My old grandma at one point had 7 rotweillers...... nicest dogs in the world, to her. If you were a stranger, they would bark their heads off, and would probably tear you apart if you crossed that fence.

They seemed to take cues on the way my grandma acted towards you. When we'd visit, theyd be barking at you alot, but after she let us in and we came by a few times, the dogs would leave us alone as we came and went from the property.

I hear stories from when my grandpa was alive of one of their rotweillers being very protective of him, and not picking up on cues as well, to the effect that one guy patted my grandpa on the back in the presence of this dog. It misinterpretted the act... and knocked him to the ground. I think it bit him, but not hard, and did not continue attacking, basically just knocked him down and held him down, then stopped when it got yelled at.

All my experience with dogs has been that the owner has nothing to fear, and as long as the dog knows you have the owners consent to be there, you have nothing to fear(might be a little more carefull when making physical contact with the owner, a handshake was understood by the one dog, a pat on the back wasnt).

Unless this was an abusive owner.... I cant understand it.

I think the generalization that pitbulls(or rotweilers) are vicious dogs is as valid as the generalization that they are very protective of their owner and property.

rossowmn

This story, in a sick way, reminds me of a page from an Onion catalog with a picture of a pit bull. The captions says, "Courageous pit bull travels 2,000 miles to attack its owner."[xx(]

hughbetcha

the dogs belonged to the daughter not the old man. They viewed the old guy as competition.