http://www.anotherperspective.org/advoc530.html

1 in 88,000 of a terrorist attack
1 in 1,500,00 of a terrorist-caused shopping mall disaster assuming one such incident a week and you shop two hours a week
1 in 55,000,000 in a terrorist-caused plane disaster assuming one such incident a month and you fly once a month ( 1 )


1 in 55,928 of death by lightening
1 in 20,605 in your clothes igniting
1 in 10,455 of dying in your bathtub
1 in 10,010 by falling from a ladder or scaffolding
1 in 9,396 due to excessive heat
1 in 8,389 due to excessive cold
1 in 7,972 in a drowning accident
1 in 6,842 in a railway accident.
Using odds of dying in a way that Americans can relate to, let's compare the above numbers to the odds of dying during your lifetime to homicide from various forms of weapons.

1 in 197 of dying in a homicide
1 in 299 of dying in an assault from a firearm
1 in 5,330 of dying in an assault by hanging or strangulation
1 in 207,261 in operations of war.



There are obviously lots of very dangerous things that should be paid attention to- for instance- the one in 197 chance of dying in from homicide-or 1 in 299 of dying from an assault by firearm.

My question is- are we spending too many resources on the war on terror, at the expense of hte much larger threats of - dying by drowning, ladder, railway accident or meteor strike?

Should we prepare more for those threats, and are we spending enough resources on those issues?