Lies, damn lies and statistics (4)

"Family wants plastic pen tops ban" after their teenage son choked to death on a plastic pen top.

That is a personal tragedy, but seeing as there must be hundreds of millions of plastic pen tops in this country, and this is the first time in ages that they have killed somebody, I think that we as a society will have to live with that risk.

Hey, 75 children are killed by their parents every year and a further 150 children are killed in car crashes/collisions.

Shall we ban parents and cars as well?