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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1076031" data-attributes="member: 2189"><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should" target="_blank">Should we really be afraid at all?</a>Statistically speaking, if you are 6 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, why do fearful citizens not demand a &quot;War on Police&quot;?&nbsp; If a police officer is 6 times more likely to kill you than a terrorist, in demanding that terrorists be disarmed, why do we not demand police officers be disarmed too?&nbsp; If risk assessment is about scale, the scale suggests the armed police officer a greater threat than the radicalized terrorist so should we therefore disarm all police and for that matter disarm the state itself?&nbsp; If these questions seem so absurd, then stop trying to frighten me with your own absurdities! <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should" target="_blank"></a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1076031, member: 2189"] [URL="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should"][COLOR=#ff0000]Should we really be afraid at all?[/COLOR][/URL] Statistically speaking, if you are 6 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist, why do fearful citizens not demand a "War on Police"? If a police officer is 6 times more likely to kill you than a terrorist, in demanding that terrorists be disarmed, why do we not demand police officers be disarmed too? If risk assessment is about scale, the scale suggests the armed police officer a greater threat than the radicalized terrorist so should we therefore disarm all police and for that matter disarm the state itself? If these questions seem so absurd, then stop trying to frighten me with your own absurdities! [URL="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should"][COLOR=#ff0000] [/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]

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