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[MiTasol]

We have sharks, snakes and crocs - and combined they only amount to a very few deaths per year - usually under 5. Nearly all of those deaths could have been avoided if the person took simple reasonable precautions - like not swimming in the sharks and crocs food bowl in such a manner as to attract them to food. I am a diver so I often swim in shark infested water and I know how to attract them for photos as well as how not to make them hungry.

The US has guns, sharks, snakes, gators and large cats. If you exclude guns, combined the others only amount to a few deaths per year. On Dec 26 last year in the US:

Very few of those, if any, could have been prevented by the victims actions.

EDIT
I used to be a hunter until the late 70's. I have no problems with responsible gun owners - but that requires mental and police checks.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

We have sharks, snakes and crocs - and combined they only amount to a very few deaths per year - usually under 5. Nearly all of those deaths could have been avoided if the person took simple reasonable precautions - like not swimming in the sharks and crocs food bowl in such a manner as to attract them to food. I am a diver so I often swim in shark infested water and I know how to attract them for photos as well as how not to make them hungry.

The US has guns, sharks, snakes, gators and large cats. If you exclude guns, combined the others only amount to a few deaths per year. On Dec 26 last year in the US:

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Very few of those, if any, could have been prevented by the victims actions.

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I used to be a hunter until the late 70's. I have no problems with responsible gun owners - but that requires mental and police checks.

Agree with your take on responsible gun ownership but you have to break down that number further.

How many were gang related (criminal on criminal)?
How many were committed with illegally acquired guns?
How many were the result of law enforcement actions?

You also have to look at this regionally. The next town over from me never had a murder in it's 130 year history but yet the city of Denver (15 miles away) had 80 last year (the average was 40 to 50 for a city of about 800,000 people).

On the other hand, over the Memorial Day weekend 49 people were shot, 9 died in the city of Chicago, but this was overshadowed by the mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas

Food for thought

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Lets not turn the joke thread into a gun debate thread…

 

[Ralph Haus]

Guns are very rare here, like in most countries.

One of the many reasons Aus, like most other countries, has never had a school shooting

So, gun safes are outlawed as well?? That would be a bit of a stretch. Then just a common safe? Seems a bit safer than a toaster? But then again, I may be completely missing the reasons for hiding in the toasted in the first place; thieve wouldn't look there. Not after that article!!

 

[Ralph Haus]

Lets not turn the joke thread into a gun debate thread…

Ouch! Guess I've opened anothed can of worms by replying? So.... how about a "Money-Toaster thread and how to best hide it"??

 

[Greg Boeser]

Now you're just phishing.

 

[SaparotRob]

When I was a happy young single fellow, I never had the gas turned on in my apartment (why even bother?). I used the oven to store cash.

 

[special ed]

 

[special ed]

 

[special ed]

 

[MiTasol]

 

[MiTasol]

One American suggestion for hiding the cash you need for when the internet crashes the eftpos system (like happens in rural Australia far too often). Not my preferred option.

 

[Greg Boeser]

One of my kids used an old Christmas cookie tin. One day I thought I would grab myself a tasty snack, only to be rudely disappointed.
Nothing in there but unappetizing cash!

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[MiTasol]

One of my kids used an old Christmas cookie tin. One day I thought I would grab myself a tasty snack, only to be rudely disappointed.
Nothing in there but unappetizing cash!

Your wages of sin were a ruined expectation

 

[Snautzer01]

 

[ThomasP]

 

[ThomasP]

 

[MiTasol]

 

[Greg Boeser]

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I can guarantee, she is not going to be impressed!