Also, the currant issue of Reader's Digest has a similiar article against "exotic pets" including the "20 people have been killed by pythons since 1980" touting that as a reason to ban all pythons as pets. I'm guessing the author MUST be ready to ban all pet dogs too, seeing as they kill that many people PER YEAR.
I threw the Reader's Digest into the trash so hard I knocked over the can and had to spend ten minutes picking up the garbage and cursing Reader's Digest.