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"Roughly 3,000 Americans have lost their lives to terrorist attacks in the last decade. This averages out to a loss of 300 people a year...[compared to average
by nefitty 11y ago
"Roughly 3,000 Americans have lost their lives to terrorist attacks in the last decade. This averages out to a loss of 300 people a year...[compared to average annual deaths by] vehicular accidents at 40,000."
http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/anti-terrorism-spending-disproportionate-to-threat/ http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/anti-terrorism...
"Gordon Adams, a national security budget expert...estimates that the U.S. spends at least $100 billion a year on counter-terrorism efforts."
http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/16/news/economy/cost-of-fighting-terrorism/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/16/news/economy/cost-of-fightin...
- refurb 11y agoVehicular accidents don't cause fear among the population, nor can they lead to political instability.
- kartan 11y agoI don't agree. It all depends on the press and other opinion makers/influencers. If you had every day reports of people that died in car accidents. If you had their stories told, if you heard about their orphaned children, each and every day. You can create as much panic as with anything else. I can even bet on that if the day that big car companies wants driverless cars comes, you will see that panic created by the press. People will vote for the banning of the old cars and they will not even understand how people of our time are not completely paralyzed by terror each time we go to the road. There is people that panics about vaccination and vaccination is something positive. The sensationalist reporting of terrorist attacks is what makes them so successful.
- nashadelic 11y agoand I think that is key to understand: Terrorism by definition causes an disproportionate amount of irrational fear but smart people and government officials should have a measured response rather than knee-jerk over-the-top spending