Originally Posted by
N965VJ
~200,000 people die each year in medical errors
~40,000 people are killed in motor vehicle accidents every year
~20,000 people combined died of
AIDS and
hepatitis every year
~16,000 homicides every year
~5,000 people will die in the workplace every year
~4,000 people will drown every year
So that’s ~285,000 untimely deaths per year. There’s plenty of other ways to get your clock punched, but I think you see the trend. By and large we mostly ignore these threats, or we would all just never leave our homes. But then we might
trip and fall down the steps going to the rec room.
Now, since 2002,
~15 US citizens were killed by terrorist activities each year. All occurred outside our borders, and I’m excluding American deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Real security does not exist. It’s a trick of light. The $7 billion we’re blowing every year for this elusive search of Freedom from Bad Things™ is a total waste, and the intrusion of the government into our personal lives is sickening.
excellent point!! real security does not exist. the problem is we live in a society that demands an answer for everything and solutions to unsolvable problems. there are no more "accidents". there is always someone to blame. a bunch of lunatics blowing up an airplane CANNOT be prevented. if the president were to come on tv and say "oh well. they got another one". we would riot in the streets. we demand something be done then dont like that something. catch 22. tsa sucks. no doubt. what do we do? eliminating the program causes outcry "that nothing is being done". keeping it causes, well, you see where we are with that......