# What's your biggest worry? Terrorism, Gun violence, or Police brutality?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 8, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-biggest-worry-terrorism-gun-violence-or-police-brutality/739755 "2015-12-08T00:12:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-biggest-worry-terrorism-gun-violence-or-police-brutality/739755/61 "2015-12-11T17:26:43Z")

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The economy.

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**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-biggest-worry-terrorism-gun-violence-or-police-brutality/739755/62 "2015-12-11T23:37:52Z")

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> [@Arrendajo](#):
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> I don’t quite understand the poll. Do you mean of those three things, which are we most worried about? Because I would be surprised to find more that a tiny fraction of the population actually worried, on a day to day basis, about any of those three things. Those people would be ignorant of the statistical likelihood of ever encountering any of those three things, which approach zero for most people. The three items in the poll don’t even scratch my worry meter. For me, automobile/scooter accident is my top worry, followed by health problems and money, in that order.

This for me too, and in the same order. Though my worries about scooting are not enough to keep me from it. I do my absolute best to keep myself safe every time I ride.

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**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-biggest-worry-terrorism-gun-violence-or-police-brutality/739755/63 "2015-12-12T00:40:04Z")

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Of the three, gun violence without question. Much more common and destructive than terrorism. Also, I have stared down the barrel of a gun while being robbed. I have not had any similar experience with terrorism.

As a middle aged white guy I don’t worry at all about police brutality victimizing me.

Yes, there are a lot of things I worry about more than gun violence, but identifying the single thing I’m most concerned about seems way beyond the purpose of this poll --and given the choices not terribly interesting.

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-biggest-worry-terrorism-gun-violence-or-police-brutality/739755/64 "2015-12-12T03:30:45Z")

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I didn’t vote because the truth is, I rarely worry about any of those things. None of them are likely, though getting shot by some random nut is probably more likely than the other two scenarios.

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