2017: Terror Attack Attempted in Europe Every Nine Days

Over 3,000 people die from car wrecks each day. From a quick glance and seeing 2015 numbers, just over 28,000 people died due to terrorism in 2015 globally. Including war torn countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. That is roughly less than 30 a day.

Simple math shows that most people in this world have an irrational fear of terrorism, mostly due to the media latching on to each and every attack. I am willing to bet that if CNN and Fox News covered every single car wreck in this country non stop less people would be willing to get behind the wheel and more legislation would be aimed at the auto industry.

If we take your right leaning news source and assume it is 100% true that a terror attack was attempted every 9 days in Europe and we give a generous 20 deaths per attack every day days (lets just go ahead and say that every 9 days a terrorist is able to kill on average 20 people), you still fall drastically short of simple car accidents in this country, coming in at around 800 terrorist related deaths per year in Europe.

Someone can check my math but based on your article you posted Europe looks pretty light on terrorism.

 

What kind of question is that? None, obviously. To imply that there is a limit is insulting in itself. If you can not come up with a better question than that to me then that is disappointing.

There is nothing wrong with pointing out irrational fear when it exists. Unless you think that we should spend unlimited money and give up our liberties to fight what can be shown to be an irrational fear that is portrayed as a bigger threat than comparable normal day to day activities you do such as driving to work.

 

You assumed I was downgrading their deaths which is a bit ridiculous to assume. Kind of sad that your first instinct is that I would do something like that.

The point was that it is an irrational fear to be so consumed with worrying about terrorism when you grab your keys and get in your car every day. The statistical numbers continue to show time and time again that terrorism is among one of the lowest causes of death in the world. Does that mean we should ignore it? Absolutely not. It doesn't mean we should be spending the amount of money we are and giving up the civil liberties we have at the level we are though.

I do not want an open air policy. How you got that out of me pointing out statistics I do not understand. I am not even completely opposed to the idea of a wall if I thought it would work, which I don't think it will. I do not think that banning certain countries in an attempt to keep muslims out is a good practice or practical one. I think we can continue to improve our screening and our border without the need for irrational fear driving it. There are lots of ways we can improve.

 

The irrational fear is that an attempted attack every 9 days should be cause for extreme alarm such as completely halting immigration which is what he mentioned. Under that thought process we should ground all vehicles.

Do you have a different interpretation on why he would quote that article and then call for a halt to immigration based on those numbers?

 

Recalls and defects account for very little of deaths. Nice try though.

 

If not you then it was applied Trump was attacked for it. I think it is reasonable to "attack" a President for wanting to halt immigration based on the above data presented. Especially considering his rhetoric while campaigning about wanting a Muslim ban.

You are correct in that you did not out right ask for it but the President you referenced in your post has and it doesn't make sense based on the data available.

 

Then why did you word it the way you did in your original post? Your analogy is your original post and it says literally that above! I can only go on what you post and that is what you said.

My comment regarding the article stands, regardless of your inaccurate comment about Trump then. That article is nothing but a scare tactic headline.

 

I know what it was about. I've read every single like of each one of them. I was concerned you didn't since you obviously worded your original post in a manner that would imply all immigration would be stopped.