...The tragedy in all of this becomes readily apparent when one considers the question of, with all the present dogs and cats + soon not having enough people around to spay and neuter them...what will happen?..imagine the chaos!...just a note for all responsible people out there..be sure to "fix" your pets before you are inevitably killed by a bullet within the next few decades, a disaster may be thwarted.
>From: "TheHermit" <carlw@hermit.net>
>Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>To: <virus@lucifer.com>
>Subject: virus: US Aritmetic abilities proven to be non-existent.
was Re:going postal before you get a job
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:42:17 -0500
>
>Holy shit! Kim there are:
>365 days in a year
>24 hours in a day
>8760 hours/year
>60 minutes in an hour
>525,600 minutes in a year
>60 seconds in a minute
>31,536,000 seconds in a year
>At a death from a gunshot wound every 3.2 seconds in the United
States
>(31,536,000/3.2) there would be...
>9,855,000 deaths from gunshot wounds every year. No wonder you put an
>exclamation point behind that. Where are all these people coming
from? Where
>are they all being buried? Given the annual US birth rate of only
3,891,494
>( http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/fastats/births.htm ) and the total US
>population of 270,290,000, according to your figures, in 20 to 40
years, the
>US will have no population left...
>
>On the other hand, your death figure seems in conflict with the
governmnet
>census reflecting a total of only 2,314,690 deaths per year - from
all
>causes. I assume from your email address that you are an American.
For you
>to provide figures like this where even a glance at them shows they
are
>completely spurious is a very sad inditement of US education, and
completely
>invalidates any claim you may have made to an ability to check
research
>figures or to work with trends or statistics.
>
>DasHermit <Giving up shaking his head and fetches a bucket to weep
into>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kim McCann [mailto:kmccann@staff.portal.ca]
>> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 7:05 PM
>> To: virus@lucifer.com
>> Subject: virus: Re:going postal before you get a job
>
><Snip>
>>A life is lost ot a gunshot wound
>> every 3.2 seconds in the US!
><Snip>
>