The chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are about 1 in 20 million.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

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The chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are about 1 in 20 million. A person is as likely to be killed by his or her own furniture, and more likely to die in a car accident, drown in a bathtub, or in a building fire than from a terrorist attack.

While 1 out of 5 people fear the possibility of being murdered, the odds that a person will be murdered in any given year are about 1 in 18,690. According to the FBI, violent crime is now at a near-historic low.

One in 8 men and 1 in 24 women over the age of 40 will die from a sudden heart attack, while 1 in 4 men and 1 in 5 women will die from cancer.

According to the CDC, the infant mortality rate is about 6 for every 1,000 live births, which is more than 10 times higher than the mortality rate of the county with the highest vehicle mortality rate—San Bernardino, California—in the country.

God Bless our men and women in uniform (seriously - no sarcasm intended), but remember that nothing they are doing over there is likely to make us truly safer. Better roads, better heathcare, and continuing to move toward self-sufficiency in clean energy will make us safer and more secure.

... and staying the Hell away from sharks - that helps too.

[HoneyBadger]

1. You are 4 million times more likely to die from cancer

Yet people smoke, go out in the sun, eat red meat, you name it.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. Imagine if we treated texting and driving like terrorism

More lives would be saved, to be sure.