# Stop the world I want to get off...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/518492>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 22, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/518492 "2009-11-22T02:31:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off/518492/21 "2009-11-23T17:01:16Z")

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> [@TheScogg](#):
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> 99.999% (no, I don’t have a cite for this) will never be a victim of terrorism.

It’s right, though. For a worst-case scenario, look at the number of Americans who died in terrorist attacks in 2001: 2819 killed in the September 11 attacks, five killed in the anthrax mailings. Total US population is about 300 million. Some simple math shows that 99.999057% of Americans were not killed in terrorist attacks in 2001. The numbers are even better if you look at a year other than 2001, or an average over several years.

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