Your chances of being killed by a terrorist are quite low. Quit worrying about it.

Your chances of being killed by a terrorist are quite low.  Quit worrying about it. Of course it is your right to agonize over the threat.




John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State University, and Mark Stewart, a civil engineer and authority on risk assessment at University of Newcastle in Australia … contended, “a great deal of money appears to have been misspent and would have been far more productive—saved far more lives—if it had been expended in other ways.”

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/did-the-u-s-overreact-to-the-911-attacks-undoubtedly/

http://www.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.gisp.d7_orfalea-2/files/sitefiles/other/UCSBpaper.pdf


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Terrorist incidents in the U.S. are quite rare, so estimating off a single year is going to be problematic. Looking at the time-series, what you see is that the vast majority of U.S. terrorism fatalities came during the 9/11 attacks (See this report from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.)


https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/259398/is-this-chart-showing-the-likelihood-of-a-terrorist-attack-statistically-useful/259426


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