Should You Worry about Dying in a Terrorist Attack?
June 21, 2016
Of course not. You should be more worried about dying from riding a bicycle or choking on food or falling out of bed. And if the FBI and the military would quit creating terrorists, there would be even less of a chance of dying in a terrorist attack. And since you are “40 thousand times more likely to die crossing the street than in a terrorist attack on a commercial airliner,” why do we need the TSA?
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.

