Q Feb 5, 2016
Five truths about terrorism
US politics has been captured by terrorists.
In December, polls showed that one in six Americans, about 16 percent of the population, now identify terrorism as the most important national problem, up from just 3 percent the previous month.
This is the highest percentage of Americans to mention terrorism in a decade, although it is still lower than the 46 percent measured after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.ejinsight.com/20160205-five-truths-about-terrorism/
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2. Terrorism is not the biggest threat facing people in advanced countries.
Terrorism kills far fewer people than car accidents or cigarettes.
Indeed, terrorism is not even a big threat – or a small one, for that matter.
One is likelier to be struck by lightning than to be killed by a terrorist.
Experts estimate that an American’s annual risk of being killed by a terrorist is one in 3.5 million.
Americans are more likely to die in an accident involving a bathtub (one in 950,000), a home appliance (one in 1.5 million), a deer (one in two million), or a commercial airliner (one in 2.9 million).
Six thousand Americans die annually from texting or talking on the phone while driving.
That is several hundred times more than die from terrorism.
Radical Islamic terrorism kills fewer Americans than attacks by disgruntled workplace and school shooters.
Terrorism is not World War III.
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