Re: Absolutely Bonkers

In article <QvuOe.11154$cO6.4965@xxxxxxxx>,
Tom McDonald
<tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snip>
> You specified humans using only sticks. Using only sticks, the
> time could be any time. Could you reliably bring down a mountain
> lion with a stick? Let us give you a brawny branch, with a knot
> in the end. Could you do it today? Reliably?
>
> Or let's give you a band of twenty humans: five adult males, two
> sub-adult males, three males under age, say, 8; five adult women
> (two significantly pregnant), three sub-adult females and two
> females under the age of 8.
>
> Now, let's set your band on a pride of hunting lions. You get
> stout sticks.
>
> We'll make it a middling-size pride: two adult males, two
> juvenile males; four adult females (two significantly pregnant),
> two juvenile females; and three cubs of assorted genders.
>
> How many lions do you suppose you and your band could bring
> down? At what cost to your band?

<snip>

Predators cannot take a hit.

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Guns don't kill people; automobiles kill people.

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