Originally Posted by
cbn42
Actually, you are way off. About 2,000 people died in the September 11 attacks, out of a US population of 300 million. Even if you assume that that was the only terrorist attack of the century, the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are far higher than 1 in 400 million.
Odds of dying that day in a terrorist attack were 1 in 100,000. Still significantly lower than driving a car, having a heart attack, or dying of cancer.
If you factor that with terrorism over the years and count it as a one off, your chances are even lower.
I can live with those odds.