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Re: Should I worry about...

by mozrat

On the point about terrorism.... Yes. The chances of being killed by a terrorist in, say the mainland United States is absolutely tiny. Look at very recent history. There are 294,515,980* people in the USA as I write this. How many were killed in 1999 by terrorists in the US? Zero; 2000? Zero; 2002 to date? Zero In 2001 3,500 people lost their lives in a horrible, inhuman attack, but in measuring the likelihood of you dying at the hands of terrorists the odds are still pretty small However the Western World is still fed daily doses of paranoia by the press and governments who basically want to stay in power, enrich themselves, push through their agendas, keep the population scared. Am I saying there are no terrorists out to get us?? Of course not... we should be hunting these people down, but the risk isn't as big as people want us to think. The boogeyman isn't hiding in your closet. *http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

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