With the recent thread about how cars kill so many more people than guns, I just thought I might post this little editorial:
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/age30.html
"According to the US Centres for Disease Control, the odds of an American dying in a terrorist attack are about one in 88,000. The odds of dying by falling off a ladder are one in 10,000. And, according to an article in Foreign Policy magazine, even in 2001, car crashes killed 15 times more Americans than terrorism."
Yeah, yeah, I know, the terrorists will get their hands on a nuke and set it off in Disney World the minute we pull out of Iraq so the statistics are bound to change, but until they do the stats still indicate that there are many greater dangers to your health than terrorists.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/age30.html
"According to the US Centres for Disease Control, the odds of an American dying in a terrorist attack are about one in 88,000. The odds of dying by falling off a ladder are one in 10,000. And, according to an article in Foreign Policy magazine, even in 2001, car crashes killed 15 times more Americans than terrorism."
Yeah, yeah, I know, the terrorists will get their hands on a nuke and set it off in Disney World the minute we pull out of Iraq so the statistics are bound to change, but until they do the stats still indicate that there are many greater dangers to your health than terrorists.