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[sbr]

Made up sources aside, Marti has a point.  Based on the odds I have witnessed recently, I should be more afraid of an American that could have a gun than a Muslim who might have a pressue cooker.

[Martinus]

I was basing it on this:

[Eddie Teach]

There's about 10k a year now, so I'm sure you have to go back well before 1980 to get a million.

[Martinus]

Ok, so going by the last year, it's 2 to 10,000. 

[derspiess]

Made up sources aside, Marti has a point.  Based on the odds I have witnessed recently, I should be more afraid of an American that could have a gun than a Muslim who might have a pressue cooker.

Really?  So do you frequent high-crime inner city areas much?

[sbr]

What's the crime rate in Newtown CN?

I dont frequent marathons, army bases or 747s so I should definitely be safe from the Muslims.

[Eddie Teach]

I was attacking your claim, not your argument. 

I will note that it's the randomness of terrorist attacks rather than the frequency which causes general alarm. Most people are positive that their spouse/child/employee/neighbor/etc is not gonna shoot them up.

[DGuller]

Made up sources aside, Marti has a point.  Based on the odds I have witnessed recently, I should be more afraid of an American that could have a gun than a Muslim who might have a pressue cooker.

Both sides have a point.  Being a Muslim is clearly a risk factor for being a terrorist.  However, terror itself is a very tiny risk factor for dying, far too tiny to have our society go down that slippery slope of officially profiling individuals for that reason.  Freedom isn't free, and as the gun debate shows, we're willing to spend thousands of lives per yer on far less fundamental freedoms than not being profiled.

[CountDeMoney]

Made up sources aside, Marti has a point.  Based on the odds I have witnessed recently, I should be more afraid of an American that could have a gun than a Muslim who might have a pressue cooker.

Depends.  Your chances of being a victim of gun violence in America is predicated upon risk factors and risk behavior.

[sbr]

Like being a 6 year old in school.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, since you're not 6 years old in a school, you don't have to worry about it, now do you?

[sbr]

Yeah thank god I got out of those dangerous years. 

[Eddie Teach]

He could get shot up by cops because a former coworker comes in and shoots his boss.

[CountDeMoney]

He could get shot up by cops because a former coworker comes in and shoots his boss.

Or he could get in his car and be one of the 33,000 auto fatalities a year.

[Eddie Teach]

Or he might have an aneurysm while reading Languish.