mooreandrew58 posted...adjl posted...
mooreandrew58 posted...
I really doubt its more of a risk than terrorism. except for where I live where only a dumb terrorist would try s*** as the kill count would be too low to accomplish anything much.
and what I mean is i'm willing to bet most lawnmower deaths are user error related somehow where as terrorists attacks you as a citizen have zero control over.
The stats don't lie. You are more likely to be killed by a lawnmower than by a terrorist. You do have more power to avoid being killed by a lawnmower than to avoid being killed by a terrorist, but the point of the stats is that that's perfectly fine. Putting more effort and concern into avoiding terrorism than you would into avoiding a lawnmower accident is completely at odds with the reality of the risks involved.
I hate the year by year stats for one reason. how many people died at one time in 9/11. when has a lawnmower ever killed that many in such a short period of time. same argument could be made in the guns versus cars arguments. and i'm saying that as someone who supports the 2nd amendment rights. i'm just trying to point out these types of comparisons are just dumb
i'm also not saying we should never let immigrants in just because "omg possible terrorists" but i'm also saying we shouldn't say fuck it not shit we can do about it. I prefer immigrants to be checked for any possibility of being a criminal before they are allowed in.
just googled that 75 die a year to lawnmowers average a year. did the math, and the number that have died from lawnmowers since 9/11 doesn't add up to the amount of people that died alone on that day.
Did the 9/11 hijackers have any criminal background that would have raised a red flag?
And none of them were immigrants. One used a student visa while the others used tourist and business visas.
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