The Threat of Terrorism
ben | 18 September, 2006 14:47From BoingBoing.net:
Ryan Singel at Wired News has produced an insightful little chart that compares the odds of dying from a terrorist attack to other causes of death in the United States. According to this data, Americans are more likely to be killed by a policeman than by a toothpaste-wielding foreign jihadist.
This to me brings up the questions of who benefits from everyone being terrorized by a publicized threat of terrorism AND what is being done to address the thousands of other things that are statistically more likely to kill me than terrorism.
See the chart with links to the places they got the data from at Wired.com here.
Original boingboing.net post here.
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