Sunday, May 27, 2007

Fear and Terrorism

What happened to "Nothing to fear but fear itself"? Every time we change our behavior or allow our freedom to be limited the terrorists win.

A short list of compiled US death rates. Rates are given in deaths per 100,000 per year.


  • Motor vehicle accident 1999-2002: 15.3

  • Firearms 2003: 10.3

  • Terrorism 2001: 1.06

  • Terrorism 1993-2003: 0.012

Just wanted to show everything in perspective. We should be at terror level chartreuse on cars ... They are dangerous. Everyone driving should be licensed to handle a lethal weapon. We should raise the driving age, minors should not have such great responsibility. Re-licensing every couple of years should be mandatory. Think about it ...

A final note on death rates:



2 comments:

Annette said...

That is interesting information. Where did you get it? Links would be helpful :)

Richard said...

The data was compiled from two different sources. All the Domestic death rates are from the CDC. (www.cdc.gov) the other is from http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/terror_rate.html