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Originally Posted by White Doors
So you don't see a difference in dying from a car accident and being murdered? Is that what you are saying?
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What is the difference? What's wrong with expecting my government to try to prevent me dying in car crash, instead of wasting so much time and money fighting the far less likely threat of terrorism. The odds of me dying in a car crash are about 1 in a 100. The odds of me dying in a terrorist attack are in the neighbourhood of 1 in 100,000.
There is some dollar amount that you could spend to make roads completely safe. For example, as a wild ass guess, I would bet with the amount we've spent fighting terrorism, we could reduce highway accidents in half by fitting all cars some kind of variable traction control and side airbags, and redesigning the dangerous stretches of road.
If you reduced car accident deaths by half, you'd save almost 20,000 american lives per year. Do you really think that everything that is being done above and beyond a more modest plan of investigating and preventing terrorism is really saving 20,000 american lives/year?