>Today, being killed by a toaster is many orders of magnitude more likely than being killed by a terrorist. I don't think this is true. Googling it, it seems t

>Today, being killed by a toaster is many orders of magnitude more likely than being killed by a terrorist. I don't think this is true. Googling it, it seems to originate from the claim "you should be more scared of toasters than sharks" based on the number of toaster deaths (source of this data is unclear - Fermi estimate?) The only data I could find cites 21 deaths in the US in 2000 from "countertop cooking." By comparison, there were 211 mass shooting deaths in the US in 2019 per Northeastern University. https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/hazard_housewares.pdf https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/hazard_housewares.pdf