Death industries

[catbirdseat]

People worry about terrorism. Between food industry, gun manufacturers and pharmaceutical corporations, you have million more chances being killed by them, rather then by a terrorists.

People have a very distorted sense of risk. We have much less fear of things we feel we have control over as opposed to things we don't have control over, like terrorists. Many people are killed by their own guns and their own cars, but they don't fear these things. We feel we have "control" over them when the reality is we have control only some of the time.

[glassgowkiss]

0.8% of deaths are homicides, more then 50% are due to cardio-vascular diseases.

[ivan]

it's far easier for me to shriek at you to stop carrying a handgun then for me to lay off the hohos though

[rob]

0.8% of deaths are homicides, more then 50% are due to cardio-vascular diseases.

 

0% of cardiovascular-related deaths are homicides, though.

[G-spotter]

What about the dude in Oregon who fell into the grinder in the sausage factory?

[KaskadskyjKozak]

0.8% of deaths are homicides, more then 50% are due to cardio-vascular diseases.

 

0% of cardiovascular-related deaths are homicides, though.

 

woah, apparently ggk's profound points went over your head!