19 September, 2006

Risky

Wired has collated and ennumerated a few causes of death in the USA, to give some perspective on the statistical risk of terrorism.

One rather conspicuous comparison: in the 11-year period 1995-2005 (i.e. including the WTC/Pentagon attacks), 3,147 people were killed by terrorism, whilst 3,949 were fatally shot by law enforcement officers.

[Via Boing Boing.]