>In fairness, you would have to be catastrophically unlucky to
>be killed or seriously hurt by a .22 LR bullet at a range of one mile;
>but I have found that a lot of the standard safety precautions in
>virtually anything as inherently dangerous as shooting are
>rooted, and rightly so, in the underlying maxim, "Never assume you are
>not catastrophically unlucky."

I thought something very similar to that earlier today. And then I put on my face shield before I hit the go button and kicked the lathe up from 300rpm to 3400...