An average of 20 people *per year* are killed by cows.
Horses kill the same number.
I like my odds.
:)
I understand. Note that I didn’t say you are a irresponsible yahoo. If you own one of those reptiles, I am going to guess you treat it with respect as the potentially dangerous animal that it is.
That said, horses and cows aren’t predatory animals, and fatalities due to encounters with them are very likely accidental or incidental, plus the number of encounters between people and cows/horses are likely on the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands to one.
In the hands of a trained person, I don’t have a problem. In the hands of people who own them as a symbol like many who own pit bulls, I do have a problem.