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My Dear Whacky,

Time for a bit of reality, like basic math, elementary statistical analysis, and learning to differentiate between reality and projections.

But before I begin your lessons, try to remember that survival is the most basic right. Being eaten alive is the ultimate violation, wouldn't you agree?

To start, "Let's do the math" and the statistics. The risk for these cats is not spread evenly across the roughly 250 million Americans. All Americans are exposed to lightening to one extent or another.

But almost no Americans live where there are panther. So the annual ten attacks & one death are a risk to far less than 2.5 million Americans. For the risk to be equal for all Americans, there would have to be 250 divided by 2.5 or 1,000 attacks & 100 deaths per year.

Unless the whacko's can arrange for 100 times the present number of panther, and arrange for them to be evenly distributed across America, those of us exposed to these ill advised "reintroductions" are at at least 100 times the risk you so snidely implied.

I am assuming that you didn't have any statistical background because if you did, then you would have been deliberately deceptive. And that is not something which I think a FReeper would be.

There is another far greater flaw in your argument. The stuck-in-a-chimney deaths, and those of bee keepers, and even most of those who are struck by lightning - are voluntary risks assumed by the citizen who died of those things.

That unfortunate citizen decided to go into that chimney. The bee keeper chose that job, and that citizen chose to go outside.

I have had my life recklessly endangered by someone else's decision. I did not agree to assume this unnecessary risk -some enviro-socialist whacko forced me into this position.

The same applies to others who live where these large-bodied predators have been either "reintroduced" or been coddled and cossetted by the "panther panderers" I mentioned in the article.

This issue is only political to the extent that any party so abysmally stupid as to support such ill advised programs deserves any voter rejection which their actions bring onto their nasty socialism impaired heads.

But I do have a personal agenda - not being eaten.

Make that two agenda issues - not standing by while elderly heighbors are recklessly endangered by 'crats who knew they were endangering us before they began this project.

The test is in the next election. You, and the Republic, must live with what you have learned.