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It is a very much overdone reputation. I've lived in Aus all my life, much of it rural and I don't know a single person who has been bitten by a snake or shark
by emmelaich 6y ago
It is a very much overdone reputation. I've lived in Aus all my life, much of it rural and I don't know a single person who has been bitten by a snake or shark let alone died. Spider - maybe but most a very shy. But again some bitten, not one died that I know of.
Compare to the USA. Cougars and bears should scare you MUCH more than anything in Australia. And rabies. We have no rabies.
Some rabies-like diseases but you would have to be extremely unlucky to get those (lyssavirus from bats for instance)
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- jamil7 6y agoIn the USA you might also just you know, get shot.
- tekknik 6y agoIt took all of two minutes to find a shooting incident in Australia from last year, showing not only that youre wrong, but that yet again gun control stops law abiding citizens but not criminals. https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729901315/deadly-shooting-shocks-australia-known-for-tough-gun-control-laws https://www.npr.org/2019/06/05/729901315/deadly-shooting-sho...
- jamil7 6y agoI'm wrong about what? The grandparent made a joke about dangerous animals killing people in Australia, I made a joke about guns killing people in America. Also picking out a single data point is a strange way to prove your point and try and start an argument about gun control in the US vs Australia, a debate I don't care to have since I don't live in either country.
- tekknik 6y agoOk so you have no care about the subject, no care about either country, you saw it fit to respond..... And yes one datapoint is all it takes to show you can die in Australia from a gun just like in the US and nearly, if not every, country on earth. What a wonderful thing to joke about.