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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust a Survey .............. Are you Afraid of Terrorists??
I hear these talk show hosts talking about how the only thing that the terrorists want is to kill us all ........ Are you afraid??
YES
NO
OTHER
Iggo
(47,591 posts)spanone
(135,924 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,475 posts)there are many things out there that can kill or hurt me, they are just one more.
putitinD
(1,551 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,865 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)... most part no, I feel more threatened by an overtly racist president than a terrorist
radical noodle
(8,017 posts)Angry Dragon
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radical noodle
(8,017 posts)radical noodle
(8,017 posts)It's not something I even consider when going out.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)onecaliberal
(32,991 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)True Dough
(17,378 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)There are far to many more likely sources of danger.
haele
(12,692 posts)They win if they make you change your life because you're afraid.
And the old saying is "one man's freedom fighter is another man's traitor", not "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist".
Cowards make that mistake when they target average people to make a political statement.
Haele
True Dough
(17,378 posts)When I get on a plane, I almost always think about the possibility of a crash, but due to a bird strike or a mechanical failure. I very rarely think about the potential of someone on board being a terrorist.
Not the least bit hesitant to go to the mall or other public places.
There is a remote chance someone in public could be a psycho with a gun, either a "religious fanatic" or someone with mental illness (and those two categories are not mutually exclusive, of course), but I refuse to go about my life living in fear. It's senseless. Much greater chance of being involved in a serious vehicular accident, and that's not going to prevent me from driving either.
unblock
(52,489 posts)TeamPooka
(24,292 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Random gun owners?
Scare the crap out of me!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)some goddamned drunk driver in a car hitting me when I'm on the road.
hatrack
(59,602 posts)But it doesn't keep me home.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Freethinker65
(10,105 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)I know it could happen, but the odds are ridiculously low for that.
Domestic terrorists? Absolutely. Their hero is about to be sworn into presidential office. Thankfully, I live in a blue state, which gives me a bit of space from the real crazies, but we have our own brand of them up here.
melman
(7,681 posts)Definitely. If you live in East Bumfuck I could see maybe how you wouldn't, but if you are anywhere where there are actually people or if you travel overseas...I can't see how you wouldn't be.
I was in Boston when the marathon was bombed. Shit's real, I don't know why people pretend it's not.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)The effects of 9/11 haunted us here directly for many months (breathing the fumes all through Christmas season) and I am close to several people whose lives were changed forever.
It's much more abstract to people who were not here. Hard to forget if you lived through it. Hard not to worry they'll go after Trump properties.
safeinOhio
(32,751 posts)Is way more dangerous to me.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)Once we are all afraid they have truly won.
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)being killed by an incompetent doctor. They kill far more people every year than terrorists.
JenniferJuniper
(4,516 posts)Humans have sucked since the beginning of time. Part of life unfortunately
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Vinca
(50,326 posts)stop at the property lines.
sarisataka
(18,895 posts)not afraid of terrorists, toddlers, gun owners, drivers, psychopaths or any overlap of those groups.
As one philosopher said, ' The worst that can happen is we die; no one has proven that harms us either'
I do find creatures with more than eight legs to be creepy...
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Afromania
(2,771 posts)Nobody is coming to suburbia to commit a mass shooting or blow something up other than Johnny living down the block from you. I live and work in NYC, my family lives and works in NYC, my friends live and work in NYC. We get up and go about or business knowing that the city is a target and while being concerned about it. We manage to not be so absolutely petrified we want a Muslim registry, a wall or long guns. It seems that the people most afraid of the "Terries" are the one farthest from targets of interest.
ret5hd
(20,563 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)Skittles
(153,298 posts)AKA REPUBLICANS
Behind the Aegis
(54,053 posts)But then again, I am gay and a Jew, so I have reasons to be afraid of terrorists. Do I let them determine how I live? FUCK NO! Also, I have a wide definition of "terrorist", so when I say I am afraid, in my mind, I am usually thinking neo-Nazi, Klucker, "Christian-oriented extremist" and then following up, way down in 4th place, "ISIS"-related...in that order.
hunter
(38,349 posts)Our old house had bullet holes in it. One day I was looking over the back fence and saw a cop shoot a guy. The guy was hurrying away, and then for some inexplicable reason he turned around and charged the cop. I'm sure he was on meth or pcp or something similar and he thought he was Superman. (This was before bath salts.) The guy didn't die, but he was shot to death a few years later by an unknown assailant.
I used to play with our kids on the floor of our back room whenever I heard gunshots.
The car I drive has a bullet hole in it. We bought it from a guy who had lived in a similarly bad neighborhood.
We're in a better neighborhood now, but I could still do a walking tour of places where people have been shot. Our frequently graffiti-covered back wall is on a major path to the high school. Painting it over, especially the gang stuff, is a never-ending chore. If it's not painted over it grows explosively, especially if rival gangs start painting over one another's work with increasingly vile threats.
And you know what? I don't even worry about that shit. Why would I worry about some vague "terrorists?"
dumbcat
(2,120 posts)off of San Juan Grade road. It used to be a nice neighborhood.
When I left there in 1997, my house, and several of my neighbor's houses had bullet holes in them.
Neighborhoods change over time.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)but I am afraid of heavily armed yahoos and rednecks. We are surrounded by them.
You have a better chance of being struck by lightning than killed by a "terrist."
Interesting facts: http://www.lifeinsurancequotes.org/additional-resources/deadly-statistics/
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)pbmus
(12,422 posts)apcalc
(4,465 posts)Raine
(30,541 posts)are on major streets and will most likely go unrepaired for months & months.
Scruffy1
(3,257 posts)niyad
(113,860 posts)those who willingly voted for the tiny-fingered vulgarian, the reichwing spin machine. . . . those are the terrorists you mean, yes?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)It's highly unlikely that any other terrorists will directly affect my life.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)About as little as I am scared of getting hit by lightning, or a meteorite, or a plane.
marlakay
(11,534 posts)Its huge in my county because of drugs and getting worse. My husband stopped 3 guys yesterday who were casing around, called the cops, they came out but could only yell at them because they were casing neighborhood not doing the crime.
Guy in back seat on probation for burglary, driver no license...third guy was warned off before cops came and fled. He was down the street getting ready to rob someone.
My hubby knocked on every door with flier he made with info. He was angry.
My hubby sits at desk that over looks our street. The crime has been done daylight while people at work. All the neighbors thanked him since most were gone.
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)I'm more afraid of daily life in a large city.
Number of times I've almost been mugged: 2 (I say "almost" because I can run very fast.)
Number of times I've been in auto accidents involving a trip to the hospital in a neck brace: 2
Number of random shootings/attacks I've been in: 0.
Edited to add: I still go out whenever I want. I'm not worried about any of these things.
hatrack
(59,602 posts)"They under the bed, they're in the backseat . . . they're calling from inside the house!!!"
This shit passed its sell-by date around 2005, and I don't give a shit what the Action McPravda channels say.
Historic NY
(37,460 posts)Runningdawg
(4,531 posts)I am not afraid of global terrorism in general. It does not effect my daily life. On the other hand, I live in the lions den, surrounded by people who idolize those like Timothy McVeigh and pray for civil war. I pay VERY close attention to my surroundings and I do carry in certain situations.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)I'm more worried about getting caught in crossfire or accidentally shot by immature, careless idiots. That seems to be a problem in many of our larger cities.