Don't worry. I agree with you that a dog is much more likely to kill you than a large snake. However, when you are trying to convince people about things like the ban you are dealing with public PERCEPTION rather than objective reality.

I think you can improve the perception of large snake safety if we can get better death statistics. Let me play with the numbers a little bit and see what they look like.
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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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