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To: V_TWIN
Bears or Gators? Which way do you want to go?

Alligators in Florida:
Over 500 attacks with 33 deaths since 1948; ~33 deaths over ~76 years = about 0.4 deaths per year

Bears in the USA:
Over 180 fatal bear attacks in North America since 1784. The U.S. has approximately 1,000 bear attacks annually, but only 10 to 20 end in fatalities, with an average of 1 to 2 annual deaths.

Key Takeaways:
Despite bears having a much higher frequency of overall attacks (~1,000/year vs Florida's alligator rate), alligators are actually deadlier per incident. Alligator attacks result in death roughly 6.6% of the time (33 deaths / 500 attacks), while bear attacks are fatal only about 1-2% of the time on average.

However, bear attacks are quite rare—the chance of being attacked by a bear is just 1 in 2.1 million, and when hiking in backcountry, it's 1 in 232,613 individual travel days.

The chance of getting attacked by a 'gator while swimming in Florida seems to be 100%.

7 posted on 06/29/2026 8:30:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

**The chance of getting attacked by a ‘gator while swimming in Florida seems to be 100%.**

Yep, neither open nor concealed carry work very good in water.

Sad for the tragic death, just terrible.


10 posted on 06/29/2026 8:38:55 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

There’s a lot of ways to die an unnatural death in Florida.

Florida is the lightning strike state capital of the US......sharks, water moccasins, rattle snakes, sinkholes, rip currents, hurricanes and the tornadoes that hurricanes spawn, and the latest....MALARIA.....all will kill you.

It ain’t all sunshine and Piña Colada’s down here. 😏


20 posted on 06/29/2026 8:59:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What about pit bulls?


59 posted on 06/29/2026 1:13:36 PM PDT by Greg123456
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That last sentence makes no sense whatsoever.


62 posted on 06/29/2026 4:48:03 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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