Number of deaths caused by Islamic extremist terror attacks is a fat-tailed distribution, while deaths caused by lawn mowers is not. There is no organized movem

Number of deaths caused by Islamic extremist terror attacks is a fat-tailed distribution, while deaths caused by lawn mowers is not. There is no organized movement among lawnmowers to rise up and kill people - the deaths happen by accident, and the odds of deaths increasing 1000% one year are very, very low. The same logic does not hold for terrorist attacks. There is no reason to assume an attack on the scale of 9/11 or greater will never occur again. These low-probability but highly significant events are not being factored in by Kim Kardashian West, and a lot of people are not thoughtful enough to consider them on their own.