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Since we still seem to be having a national freakout
over some loser who got on a plane with a bomb in his underwear, which
was apparently worthy of a presidential address, it might be a good
idea to put the actual danger posed by terrorist attacks in some
numerical perspective.
If you count the Ft. Hoot shooting as a terrorist attack, which even the likes of Pantload doesn’t,
16 people have died in the United States as result of terrorism in
2009. The other three deaths include the Little Rock military
recruiting office shooting (1), the Holocaust Museum shooting (1), and
Dr. George Tiller’s assassination (1), the last two coming at the hands
of right-wing extremists.
On the other hand, 45,000 Americans died because they didn’t have health insurance and 600 died from salmonella poisoning.
Clearly, providing health care to all Americans is beyond our
capabilities, so when do we launch the $700 billion-a-year War on
Salmonella? | 
