" From the link provided, only 5 people die." Only? Hospitals are increasingly not stocking anti-venom because it expires and it's expensive to replace. "For

" From the link provided, only 5 people die." Only? Hospitals are increasingly not stocking anti-venom because it expires and it's expensive to replace. "For a more accurate comparison, you would compare this with the number of injuries and deaths from firearms." I was explicit in using the term handguns and deaths to avoid ambiguity. "a hot-button topic like firearm violence." I did it on purpose. Not many bad events occurring at 6000/320e6 are ever universally present in and shape our American psyche like handgun deaths. "There's a lot more goes into a nuanced discussion than throwing out stats like this." Specifically, snake bites aren't rare. Neither are handgun homicides. Or maybe they are both rare. They're both a two in a hundred thousand event.