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To: marktwain

Much less than a hundred. We’ve been consistently around 30 per year since 2005. Before that, the number was routinely in the single digits (which could be due to less attention by the news media).


55 posted on 07/24/2014 12:39:32 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (Keep guacamole where it belongs: With Scoutmaster on the UT.)
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To: Scoutmaster

Be nice of you to post a chart. All this fuss over 30 fatalities a year? That is about as many children as die drowning in five gallon buckets!

True, I am sure there are many more maulings, but 30 a year is down in the noise level for deaths, which are about 2.5 million a year.

It makes a dramatic story, and reaches our primal instincts.


59 posted on 07/24/2014 1:32:45 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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