Originally Posted by HeHateY
Now, as shown by the stats for gun deaths and car deaths, should we not just confiscate all guns and cars in the USA? I mean we'd save the lives of over 50,000 people a year! Where is your sensitivity to this human impact?
It never stops to surprise me, but the tolerance to premature death seems to be very high as long as the deaths occur "once in a while". As soon as there are many in one incident, we tend to get all upset. And the WTC is a prime example of this. In 2001 (the latest year for which CDC has any statistics on its web site) there were 3,454 deaths due to malnutrition!
Imagine that,
more people died from not having enough to eat in the richest country of the world, than in WTC! But we are not seeing any proposals to funnel some of the billions of dollars we spend on TSA to a food-aid program, even though we would see a much better return on investment if we did.