A few facts

Think about this:
a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year is 120,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (United States Department of Health and Human Services)

Then think about this:
a. The number of gun owners in the United States is 80,000,000.
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners are.
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand. As a public health measure I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.


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GBYA
Aahz

"Pass the ammunition"

Personally, I'm not worried about being shot accidentally. It's the whackos and psychos who scare me!
Please don't take that to mean I'm one of them there bleeding heart liberals who want to ban guns.
Nor am I a "God Bless Charlton Heston, Guns for Everybody No Questions Asked" Dillweed.
Evil aliens with PROBES- that's another story!

I'm all for the right to bear arms...hell, we have a stocked gun cabinet in our house LOL!!!
(And yes, it is kept locked and the guns are unloaded)

Aahz writes....As a public health measure I have withheld the statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.

BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA.... Good one Aahz...rofl....
Those are alarming stats.... Pass the ammo lol

What's all this about bear arms? Do bears have arms? I thought they were four-LEGGED. Do the front legs count as arms? Can bears hold a gun? Wouldn't that be dangerous? I mean bears are dangerous enough without giving them guns. And shouldn't we also give guns to the zebras and wildebeest, so they can protect themselves from the lions? Why am I rambling like this? Could it be the dope? Should people on dope be allowed to carry guns? What if they run into an armed bear? Did you know that the original title of the Beatles movie "HELP!" was "EIGHT ARMS TO HOLD YOU"? Should Beatles be allowed to carry guns? What about all the other insects? Am I ever going to stop all this nonsense? I'll give up my nonsense when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!

[img]eek.gif[/img] ROFLMAO!! Arkon, pass some of that dope this way!!!

I'm all for the right to bear arms!! We've got a guncabinet full and pistols placed in areas where we can grab one if needed!! Also have a gun by the door!! No kids around, so you bet that sucker stays loaded!!! [img]mad.gif[/img]

ONLY GUN'S WE HAVE ARE BB GUNS! I FIGURE IF SOME TRIED TO BREAK IN AT NIGHT, THE SHEER HORROR OF SEEING MY HUSBAND AND ME NAKED, HOLDING A BB GUN WOULD BE ENOUGH TO SCARE THE HELL OUT OF ANYONE!!!!!!!!! BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

LMAO!!!!

I?m not against the right to bare arms! I?m just glad that nobody here has guns. If I saw a person holding a gun (other than while hunting, in the army or target practise) I would have a heart attack and die. lol. I don?t think we really need the protection, yet. Anyone know how it is in England?

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LMAO!!!!

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Maria..... They gave away all thir rights to have guns... IDIOTS!! Now the only ones who have them are the bad guys.. People who compete in shooting (olympics)... Have to go outside the country to do so.... so I've read.... really sad

[img]biggrin.gif[/img] ROFLMAO @ Lori!!! Ya damn nutter!!! Teehehehehehehe!!! I think any man that broke in on me would die from sheer horror of me standing there with a pistol!! I'd be so damn wild-eyed, they'd know they's either fixin to get a hole blowed in em, or better take another route!! Teehehehehehe!!!

John really gets on my nerves with those damn guns!! Any time he thinks he hears someone messing around outside, he grabs a gun, a flashlight and goes running outside like Rambo!! LOL!! Ever since our house got broken into, he freaks out!!

[img]biggrin.gif[/img] LMAO CB!!! You sure painted a picture in my head!! Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahahahaha!!! Tim does that when he thinks he hears a possum on the porch!! Grabs the damn gun, eases out the door and shoots the damn thing!! He chased one down the hill and back up it one night!! I bought died laughing!!! All I could see was a light running down the hill jig-jagging and back up it!! ROFLMAO!!! The mighty possum hunter!! Teehehehehehe!!! I think he's kin to Jed Clampett on Beverly HillBillies!! Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahahahahahaha!!! Glad he don't want the damn things cooked!! Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!! [img]mad.gif[/img]

THE ONLY TIME I COULD KILL AN ANIMAL IS IF IT WAS THREATENING MY FAMILY OR MY DOGS! JUST COULDN'T DO IT OTHERWISE. [img]eek.gif[/img]

John calls me the possum slayer LOL!! One evening when Jacob was a baby and John was working 2pm till 2am, I went outside and was sitting on the porch smoking a cigarette. I looked and saw this diseased looking possum walk out from under my house. It had no hair and they are disgusting looking enough but that made it even look worse. Well, I didn't want that diseased thing outside around the one dog and one cat that I had at the time so I went inside and grabbed the pistol. Unloaded 5 rounds in that sombitch!! He fell over and I assumed he was dead. I went inside and called my gdpa and told him to please come get the dead possum out of my yard. He came over and shined his headlights over to where I had told him I had killed it and it was gone!! The nasty thing had played dead!! We looked and found it standing at the edge of the road by my garbage can bleeding. My gdpa told me to go back in and get the pistol. I went and got it and my gdpa shot it right in the head. Killed it that time!! Them nasty things are hard to kill!!!
JuJu, I'm still laughing thinking about Tim running up and down the hill chasing the possum!! LMAO!!! I have had one chase me down the driveway once!!! I went outside one evening to put a letter in the mail and I didnt see it out there. It hissed at me and then chased me back to the house!! LOL!!

[img]rolleyes.gif[/img] OMG!!! I'll be scared to walk to the mailbox!! LMAO!!! Have to walk down the hill with a damn gun!! Bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hahahahahahaha!!! If ya'll hear on the news that a crazy woman from Mississippi was arrested for shootin' a gun and disturbing the peace, it'll be me!! ROFLMAO!!!

Lori, he kills em cause they eat the cat food!! Hell we got enough cats to feed without feeding possums!! LMAO!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I'M SCARED OF THE COYOTES AROUND HERE. THEY RUN IN PACKS BUT THEY DON'T COME OUT UNTIL DARK. GOTTA KEEP MY KITTIES IN AT NIGHT, THAT'S THEIR FAVORITE SNACK! [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]eek.gif[/img]

We very seldom hear the coyotes around here. They sure do sound scary though. Gives me chills when I hear them howling!!

I know what a coyote is, I?ve seen the roadrunner go beeb beeb on tv [img]tongue.gif[/img] ...... but what is a possum?? 5 rounds and the booger doesn?t die?? Stronger than a damn human being lol!


Wild what nobody is allowed guns in England? They have to go abroad to shoot? You know what makes me scared.. If they can?t shoot and they are now bombing Irak LOL! I hope they can touch guns in military practise hehehe... Otherwise Brittish defence would be.. would be.. umh, I don?t want to go to England! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Maria, a possum is a rodent and they look nasty!! Kinda like a big rat. They are about the size of a cat and have a tail like a rat. Type "possum" in a search engine and maybe you can see a pic of the ugly, nasty things. YUK!!
I think coyotes are pretty but I sure wouldn't want to run into one!!!

Look!!! It?s a possum holding an American flag! Don?t shoot them, they?re patriotic!!!! Lol, *j/k* I?m not a big fan of rodents either

http://www.possumnetwork.com/graphics/flag.jpg

Ewwww gross!!! Nasty lil bastards!! You have to see a pic of an actual possum instead of a drawing to get the full effect of how nasty they are!!! *Shivers* YUK!!!

Gee, thanks CB, for the tip to search for "possum" on search engines. Actually I will give you the link!

possumissimo

They have all sorts of cool stuff! Like opossum quizzes, opossum dictionary, and veeery pretty possum poems! This was my favourite possum poem;


I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree

With 'possums clinging to each limb
Like tiny, pink-tailed cherubim.

A 'possum thinks of God all day,
And lifts her gaze as though to pray;

A 'possum may in Summer scare
A nest of robins from her lair;

And winter's snow she does disdain,
Although she will acquaint with rain.

Poems are made by fools like us'em,
But only God can make a 'possum.


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you hear of all sorts of freaks in this world, but this tops it all. Someone has actually devoted a site for possum fans! Someone shoot me.

lol.....

Thanks but no thanks Maria LOL!! I think thats one site I WILL NOT be going to!! LOL!!

can I send you a possum e-card? [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Only if you want me to puke!! LOL!! I'm serious, those things make me SICK!!! EWWWW!!! I guess I have some kind of possum phobia or something LOL!!

Well, damn! I was trying to send you a picture of a smiling possum (I thought it was kinda cute lol!!) but I wasn?t smart enough to do that, so sorry, no possum e-cards for you. Today. Tomorrow is a new day. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Don't you dare!!!
Oh!! While I'm thinking about it, IM me in yahoo messenger Monday, Maria cause I got something I am DYING TO TELL YOU!!!! It's a secret though so I gotta tell ya when the "warden" is at work hehehe!!! It pertains to what we were talking about the last time we chatted in messenger. If you can't remember what it was, then tough!! LOL!! You'll just have to wait till Monday lol!!

Hey you know who I find disgusting? Tom Cruise [img]confused.gif[/img]


I simply can?t help it, whenever I see his ugly face somewhere it makes me want to throw up! his voice so ugly, so disgusting I can?t explain!! My friends went to see his movie and I really wanted to do something but I backed out at the ticket cashier LOL! I said no, I can?t go through with this. I don?t know what makes Tom Cruise so damn sickening to me. Maybe it?s because he?s short? I don?t like short men. I?ve never been to China or Japan because me and my mother don?t like short happy people. Tom Cruise has some sickening essence about him. I?m thinking of starting a Tom Cruise Anti-fan club. Anyone wanna join? [img]biggrin.gif[/img] I?ll print t-shirts! Down with Tom Cruise! [img]tongue.gif[/img]


PS this all started after I saw that movie Vanilla Sky. Don?t rent it!! Or do, maybe that?ll bring members to my new anti-fan club [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Heyy unfair!! Don?t want to wait!! Lol, ok I?ll do that and I?ll try to keep my possum and Tom Cruise talk very minimal. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Well too bad cause you gonna have to wait!! LOL!! Tom Cruise talk, I like...the possum talk, leave it out!! LOL!!

Tom Cruise is a clown [img]graemlins/bat.gif[/img] [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Tom Cruise is FINE!!!!

I just don?t like Tom Cruise. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

I didn't see the post you posted about short people until just now. I'm short, my mom is short, my brothers and my sister is short [img]eek.gif[/img]
Why don't you like short people?

HEY! I'M SHORT TOO! WHATS UP WITH THAT!? LOL! [img]wink.gif[/img]

We need to start a club for short people, Lori!! LOL!!

LMAO!!!!

I didn?t mean short as in the way you two could be, I?m no giant.. But I mean Chinese and Asian in general LOL! Too happy, cheerful and short. that?s why we?ve never been there! lol, my mom taught me these philosofies don?t blame me [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

They?re short in a way that an American short person would be twice as tall as them! I just hate the giggle they make. Sorry I?m making no sense lol!

LMAO!! You so silly!!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

LMAO!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] The whole outburst was for Asians, really! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] LOL!!!!


I don?t know, I?m 175centimeters or 1m75cm whichever?s easier for you LOL! I don?t know them inches and stuff.. [img]eek.gif[/img]

I would have to find a ruler to figure out centimeters.
I'm an even 5 ft tall. Lori, do you think we are short because we are Italian? Seems like all Italians are short LOL!!

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