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No, I'm just a forum host. Also, this individual has done nothing to merit banning. The opinion he is putting forward is both extremely unpopular and not well backed by the facts, but he isn't using abusive or foul language to do it. So, a ban is not really justified. Better that we use his post to explain the facts.
Just today I was made aware of a case where the daughter of a venomous keeper was bitten by an Aspidelaps lubricus which had supposedly escaped from its cage. So you would count this one as the only known case in which an escaped venomous snake harmed someone who was not its keeper or handler. A bit of a historical first, which no doubt will be used as a huge weight of ammunition against venomous keepers despite the rarity of the occurrence (once in all the history of venomous snake keeping).
Aspidelaps have an odd sort of venom, and fatalities have been suspected but not confirmed in small children in Africa. Eg, the kids died but it was not known for sure which African snake bit them. Aspidelaps was suspected. Bites to adults are not normally fatal even though there is no antivenom known to be effective for this species.
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