Q&A: Which is the greater threat international terrorism or snakes?
Question by Mentor M: Which is the greater threat international terrorism or snakes?
International terrorism has an estimated death toll of 2,300 people world wide each year. Snake bite has an estimated death toll of 100,000 people world wide each year.
Admittedly something needs to be done about both problems but are we overlooking the snake menace? Snakes have already secured a stronghold in Ilha da Queimada Grande, an island off the coast of Brazil which has an estimated 1 venomous snake per a square meter and is considered such a hazard the Brazilian Navy has banned civilians from visiting “snake island“.
Should we be doing more to address the snake problem?
Best answer:
Answer by Cactus Jack
Your figures are WAY off for both snakes and terrorists.
What do you think? Answer below!
August 13th, 2011 at 6:16 am
We have two problems. The first is that we don’t correctly recognize what is and what is not a threat. The second is that we think throwing billions of dollars at corporations so they can hire subcontractors with GEDs to harass babies and old women somehow makes us safer.
August 13th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Enough is ENOUGH! I’ve had it with these motha F*king snakes on this MOTHA f-ing plane!
Everyone strap in I’m about to open some f-ing windows.
August 13th, 2011 at 7:52 am
also, don’t forget the TRULY-important “Domestic American terrorism” issue, which is more lethal than ANY other type of terrorism!
- Timothy McVeigh was the AMERICAN who bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995, killing 168, and injuring 680 !
- The Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta in 1996, by AMERICAN Eric Robert Rudolph, a former US ARMY explosives expert .
- Bruce Ivins, the AMERICAN who delivered letters with anthrax spores in 2001 (while Bush was President).
- Ted Bundy was the AMERICAN serial killer, who killed 30 people between 1973 and 1978.
- Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the AMERICAN Unabomber, who sent mailbombs from 1978 to 1995.
- Andrew Stack, the AMERICAN, who flew his small plane into the IRS building in Austin, TX, killing one IRS worker Feb 18, 2010.
– the Columbine mass shooting in 1999, the Pennsylvania Amish school shootings in 2006, Northern Illinois University mass shooting 2008, the Killeen, Texas mass shooting 1991, the Jonesboro, Arkansas mass shooting in 1998, etc., etc., etc., etc., all by (WHITE, “Christian”) AMERICANs …
August 13th, 2011 at 8:51 am
How many people are killed each year by gang violence may have been a better comparison but I am with ya on snakes.
August 13th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Are snakes trying to obtain nukes to use on civilian cities? When was the last time a snake brought a building down and killed thousands?
How do you breathe with your head in the sand?
August 13th, 2011 at 9:24 am
What are you, an idiot? Do you honestly believe that Snakes are a bigger threat than International Terrorism or are you trying to push some sort of political agenda that dictates Terrorism is no longer a threat?
Yesterday Islamic Insurgents ALONE claimed the lives of 46 people and injured 68.
When was the last time Snakes tried gathering the components to build Nuclear weapons and than declare they will ” Cut the hand off of any potential attacker. ”
You are a moron. And cheers go to the morons who thumb down my comment.
August 13th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Bears!
August 13th, 2011 at 10:14 am
I think most republicans are terrified of Snakes on a Plane for obvious reasons