Here are the stats for how Americans died in 2014:

[truedelphi]

Ebola -- One
Snake Bites -- Two
Rabies -- Two
ISIS -- Three

Drone Strikes -- Five
Playing Football -- Twelve
Cow attacks -- Twenty

Police attacks -- One Thousand Plus!!

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And Marijuana overdoses - Zero

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[PufPuf23]

1. Thank you for perspective. k&r

[merrily]

2. !@#$%&

IT HAS TO STOP.

[NightWatcher]

3. I eat burgers as my revenge for the people they kill every year

I sacrifice them on my altar out back

[Buzz Clik]

6. Seems like a good move.

Friggin' murdering cows.

[truedelphi]

7. Me too. Well, in part, I eat them

Cause they taste good.

But also I support the dairy and beef industry because unlike the wine industry, which is killing species in Northern Calif. left and right, the dairy industry provides meadows and forests for the deer, cougar, skinks, skunks, snakes, frogs, toads, possums, raccoons, fox, bobcat, and hundreds of species of birds.

You can sit near a vineyard for two days and not see a living creature enter it. And each year, the vineyards get larger and larger, while the aquifers shrink, and the pesticides help the lake-killing algae grow.

[Buzz Clik]

9. errr... when was the last time you visited a dairy?

[truedelphi]

30. Actually yesterday. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

32. And you saw rolling meadows and forests with grazing wildlife and stunning species diversity?

I have seen at least 50 dairies, including organic ones, and they don't resemble that.

[still_one]

4. What about disease and car accidents

[Buzz Clik]

5. "Police attacks"? Here's another stat:

Number of police killed in 2014: 126. That's an increase of nearly 25%.

[msongs]

14. does that include cops who killed each other? nt

[Buzz Clik]

15. Is that common?

[joshcryer]

20. So being a cop is 37x safer than being a ... pedestrian.

[Buzz Clik]

21. ... if the number of cops and "pedestrians" are equal.

Are you one of those cop hater types? That all cops are bad, and all arrests are unjust?

[joshcryer]

23. Cops can be pedestrians too.

[truedelphi]

33. Is it ever ever possible for you to discuss things using basic logic,

and Without throwing in red herrings? Or without being provocative?

My guess is: probably not.

[Buzz Clik]

34. Let's see if we can do some basic logic, shall we?

Why don't you try to defend the poster's comment that cops are 37 times safer than average citizens.

[truedelphi]

35. Because that is not relevant to the discussion.

I see YOU as lacking in logic, and I see you as continually with the red herrings, the ad hominem attacks, and the rest of any ability to undertake real discussion.

You follow me from one discussion OP to another and it is generally the same - disagreeable and lacking in logic.

Like someone else once said, the IGNORE feature is a DU members friend.

[Buzz Clik]

36. Holy shit, man. Who pissed on you pancakes?

You don't want to discuss, you want to have a snit.

I'll pass.

[Comrade Grumpy]

27. According to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Officer Memorial Fund...

...their tally is 117.

And about half died in car accidents.

2013 was a quiet year for police deaths; the blip upward last year puts the numbers in more normal ranges.

[Loryn]

8. Damn cows!

Can you blame them?

[cui bono]

10. Good list, but do you have a link?

[Gregorian]

11. Throw in nicotine and alcohol, and it reveals the extreme hypocrisy.

[Cleita]

12. Cow attacks? Who would have thought that?

My gallows humor is picturing something I shouldn't be laughing at.

[NaturalHigh]

17. Ever been attacked by a cow? I have. It's not pretty.

If you change the wording to "bovine attacks," I can tell you about more than one - two by the same cow and two by steers.

[Cleita]

24. I'm sure it isn't. I have been to a bull fight and one of the matadors got gored.

Also the bulls were tortured and killed with a sword which is a slow agonizing death. I was sick for days.

It's just that this has the Wiley Coyote, road runner factor to it. I picture Elsie the Cow in her ruffled apron, whacking Elmer Fudd with a frying pan for stealing pie from her kitchen.

Also, since I'm a rural person and sometimes take short cuts through pastures, I never go into a pasture with a cow or pig in it. I take my chances with horses.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. New Hampshire farmer is dead after being gored by one of his animals.

In teh news today..
in case you wanted to start this year's stats.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/31/us/fatal-cattle-goring-on-farm/index.html?sr=tw053115fatalcattlegoringonfarm11aVODtopLink

[Aerows]

16. Thank all dieties

that I wasn't one of the two that died of rabies in 2014.

[NaturalHigh]

18. Marijuana is dangerous, though.

I learned about some of the dangers when I saw that documentary, Reefer Madness.

[Taitertots]

37. Documentary? It was the first reality TV show.

[peecoolyour]

19. I can't believe that many people have been killed by pigs-

kin.

Football can be dangerous.

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. gun deaths. 32,500. auto deaths 35,500

In some states therewere more gun deaths than auto deaths

[truedelphi]

25. Each year, between 14,000 and 19,000 people use a gun to commit suicide.

Of course, people use their cars to commit suicide also, so I don't know how it all plays out.

I suspect it might be trickier to rule a car accident a suicide than it is to define a gun incident that way.

[leftyladyfrommo]

28. 400,000 die from preventable medical errors. nt

[truedelphi]

29. That is very true and very sad.

And it also makes me doubt that only 2 people died of rabies here in the USA last year.

I imagine it is closer to a dozen people a year.

I am continually hearing about young people (usually pre-adolescent) who are bitten by a feral cat or other animal on a farm, display all the symptoms and their illness is not diagnosed until after they die and some tissue biopsy or blood work reveals they had rabies. (Symptoms of rabies include a flu like condition that goes away and returns, double vision, odd and aggressive behavior.)

[hack89]

31. Deaths from tobacco - 480,000. From alcohol - 88,000. nt

[underpants]

26. Clearly we need to start bombing to kill all the snakes

And football fields