Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Finally, someone said it!
John Mueller recently wrote an essay titled “A False Sense of Insecurity?” in which he espouses, with great evidence, that we are far more scared of terrorists than we should be.
Did you know that since the late 1960s (when the US State Department began counting) the number of Americans killed by international terrorism is the same for the time period as the number killed by lightning, accident-causing deer, or allergic reactions to peanuts.
And that includes the 3,000 killed in the September 11th tragedy.
Even in Israel, four times as many people die from car accidents than from terrorism.
So where does this intense fear come from?
Terrorism expert Brian Jenkins says, “terrorists want a lot of people watching, not a lot of people dead.” And that’s exactly what they’re getting.
In 1982, Tylenol capsules filled with cyanide killed seven people, yet it generated 125,000 stories in print media. Suddenly, the country was terrified of Tylenol and this attention cost the manufacturer $1 billion.
Of this ubiquitous fear, Senator John McCain wrote, “Get on the damn elevator! Fly on the damn plane! Calculate the odds of being harmed by a terrorist! It’s still about as likely as being swept out to sea by a tidal wave. Suck it up, for crying out loud.”