> save a lot of lives Between 1994 and present there have been approximately 3,000 Americans killed from international terrorism (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p

> save a lot of lives Between 1994 and present there have been approximately 3,000 Americans killed from international terrorism (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730293/pdf/v011p00332.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730293/pdf/v011...). That's about one annual death per every two million people, or a whopping twice your risk of death by lightning strike (http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/jeh5_05_45-50.pdf http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/jeh5_05_45-50.pdf). >150 times more people die in car crashes every year. Say what you will about the benefits, but saving a lot more lives is not among them.