Do you live in an area that is subject to unpleasant, potentially catastrophic natural phenomena? You know, like hurricanes and tornadoes and floods? I live in south florida, otherwise known as hurricane alley. I've been though 4 hurricanes, 3 in florida and one in rhode island, and all of them scared the hell out of me. I've been in military and law enforcement situations that scared the hell out of me. Do you wear a seat belt when you drive to the supermarket? If you saw a piece of furniture dangling from a rope 20 feet in the air, would you walk under it? I see no "hysteria" over terrorism. I see people who are afraid of it and try to take steps to prepare for it and continue to function, like we do with natural phenomena. But I see no hysteria, which causes paralysis. I've also seen happy idiots who are afraid of nothing die with stupid expressions on their faces.
Statistically speaking...
– You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
– You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack
- You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane
- you are 5,882 times more likely to die from medical error than terrorism.
- you’re 4,706 times more likely to drink yourself to death than die from terrorism.
- you’re 2,059 times more likely to kill yourself than die at the hand of a terrorist.
- you are 1,904 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack.
— You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack
- the CDC stated in 2011 that – in the majority of states – your prescription meds are more likely to kill you than any other source of injury. So your meds are thousands of times more likely to kill you than Al Qaeda.
- you’re 452 times more likely to die from risky sexual behavior than terrorism.
– you are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack
- you’re 353 times more likely to fall to your death doing something idiotic than die in a terrorist attack.
- you are 271 times more likely to die from a workplace accident than terrorism.
- you are 187 times more likely to starve to death in American than be killed by terrorism.
- you are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack
– you are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack
– you are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack
– you are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack
– you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist
– you are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack
– you are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/statistics-you-are-not-going-to-be-killed-by-terrorists.html
