>>> How many people know someone who died in a terrorist attack?
You may not want to pose this question to a New Yorker.
I get your point, but it is a bit of a loaded question.
You may not want to pose this question to a New Yorker.
I get your point, but it is a bit of a loaded question.
The term "loaded question" refers to questions which presume facts. For example, "why did you kill him?" Is loaded because it presumes that you did kill him. The question you are referring to is not loaded.
There were 294 motor vehicle fatalities in NYC in 2013.
The US has been averaging about ~32,000 motor vehicle deaths per year the last several years.
Your 12/10000 rate would indicate 360,000 people per year; that's off by a factor of ten.
* http://dmv.ny.gov/statistic/2013nyc.pdf
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
I still think the best response to terror is to shrug it off and get on with your life. Spent 7/7 sat at a pub in the sunshine.
While we cannot say what exactly happened on 9/11, September Clues proves without a doubt what didn't happen on 9/11.