Posted on Sep 25, 2015
Does that fact that more Americans are killed by toddlers than terrorists in the US indicate our domestic efforts are overkill?
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Simply put, yes. It's security theater, not security.
If you look at the CDC list of deaths by %/Quantity, terrorism isn't even a blip on the radar. Actually most things aren't.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
The things that are going to kill you are your health, unintentional accidents, and suicide, with the VAST MAJORITY being your health (8 of top 10).
Take the pragmatic approach and work big to small, not small to big.
If you look at the CDC list of deaths by %/Quantity, terrorism isn't even a blip on the radar. Actually most things aren't.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
The things that are going to kill you are your health, unintentional accidents, and suicide, with the VAST MAJORITY being your health (8 of top 10).
Take the pragmatic approach and work big to small, not small to big.
FastStats is an official application from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and puts access to topic-specific statistics at your fingertips.
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Here's a chance for the government to save lots of lives. http://jalopnik.com/scathing-audit-reveals-nhtsa-is-a-five-star-government [login to see]
Scathing Audit Reveals NHTSA Is A Five-Star Government Clusterfuck
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is supposed to be the government agency that protects us on the road. That stops us from getting into vehicular death traps. That saves our loved ones and ourselves from horrific ends. But it has failed, and the new government audit of its work is both damning and terrifying.
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1LT William Clardy
Capt Richard I P., no government agency has more power to save lives than we do as individuals taking responsibility for taking care of ourselves.
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Toddlers are not accidentally finding a bomb in their underwear and then trying to light it on fire to see what happens. Terrorists are willing and trying to kill people as well there are measures to prevent the tragic gun accidents via responsible gun ownership. Also I don't think this is a fair comparison in that there is no way to know all the deaths prevented either with responsible gun ownership or counter-terrorists measures. However I do feel a lot of public facing measures are more feel good than do good.
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