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0 pointsZigurd10y ago0 comments

A million people worldwide die every year in collisions with cars, half of them pedestrians and cyclists. Millions more are injured.

Compared with traffic regulation and enforcement, the response to terrorist events like this are vastly out of proportion, and well into the range of irrational response that the terrorists know is the only way to really damage a large powerful nation - by making it turn on its own people and put them in a security-state panopticon.

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gotchange10y ago

This is what I wrote in the aftermath of the Paris attacks with regard to the comparison of "road fatalities vs terrorism casualties" every time this topic is brought up after these tragic incidents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10689118

rawTruthHurts10y ago

I see there is a real interest in sneaking a completely unrelated subject into the conversation.

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