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You are 800 times more likely to be shot in the US than dispatched by a dog.
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Did you know that there are two groups of people who are attacked and killed by dogs in the United States? One group consists of children from one to ten years old. Between the ages of ten and forty, probably because by then you’ve been nipped a few times and are more wary as well as limber, you stand a pretty good chance of not being killed by a dog. In your forties and fifties you’re fairly safe. But when you turn 61 the statistics are against you again and your chances of getting chewed up by your neighbor’s family pet increase. Including all groups, around one of our neighbors succumbs to dog bites every nine days.
Then we read that in this country around 81 people die every day from guns. You can correct my math, but I think that in the United States you are 800 times more likely to be blown away by an irate neighbor than you are to be dispatched by his dog. So if your neighbor’s...
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