This has become a pretty popular retort. More people are killed by cows or staplers or whatever every year. But I think it fails in two very important ways: 1.

This has become a pretty popular retort. More people are killed by cows or staplers or whatever every year. But I think it fails in two very important ways: 1. Toddlers and cows and staplers do not have the potential to destroy Midtown Manhattan. This is a different category of threat entirely. 2. We aren't robots. We're humans who have evolved in a particular set of environments and contexts to be more scared of some things than others. It's perfectly rational to try to reduce the chance of harm from certain classes of things that we happen to fear more, even if those things aren't the most harmful over all. Fear matters. Reducing fear matters. Because we're people. You seem to think this is evidence that people just need to be educated about the relative risks. But I think it's evidence of something much deeper in the species.