It's interesting when you look at the facts behind terrorism, the terror aspect obviously works, because organisations like ISIS rely on spreading their propaganda that way, but the actual risks to the individual are very low.... LINK Terror is killing far fewer people in the UK now than it was in the 1980s Between 2000 and 2015, 90 people have been killed in the UK in terrorist attacks, according to figures from the Global Terrorism Database. This compares to 1,094 deaths in the 15-year period before that, between 1985 and 1999, and a further 2,211 between 1970 and 1984. The number of Americans killed by terrorism over the last decade (2005-2015) was 24 A US citizen is: 6 times more likely to die from a shark attack (one of the rarest forms of death on Earth) 29 times more likely to die from a regional asteroid strike 260 times more likely to be struck and killed by lightning 4,700 times more likely to die in an airplane or spaceship accident 129,000 times more likely to die in a gun assault 407,000 times more likely to die in a motor vehicle incident
Numbers being used in stats tend to loose sight of the person and person. When a terrorist kills the impact is because persons are murdered. Similarly when rapes or serial killers hit the news they draw more attention because we relate to the person. When a number is used we sometimes can disregard the human factor. I.E. (from above post which I am not belittling) "The number of Americans killed by terrorism over the last decade (2005-2015) was 24" What if instead we read, " babies,women and civilians numbering in the twenties have been murdered by being blown to pieces over just 10 years in the USA" More so if names and pictures are used. My point being when there's an act of violence the named and often pictured victims direct family and humanity is stirred and shocked. While if we say some number it dehumanizes the event. Stats are certainly important, but when terror is involved people are involved not numbers.
That looks innocuous enough, @Terry Page . But just try telling that to the families of the 22 people killed in Manchester.
Yes I completely agree @Kalvin Mitnic I was just observing how the amount of terror that the media and government induce compared to the numbers involved. In the UK, two women a week are murdered by their husbands/partners, more than a hundred children a year are killed by abuse, an average of 1,700 tragic deaths from traffic accidents a year, each having a devastating effect on the families concerned, but there is no induced terror around these incidents, just acceptance as part of life? Terrorism has been with us from Roman times and before, so it's another part of life destined to be with us for ever more? We obviously have to do everything to combat terrorism as much as possible, but is a "war on terror" likely to achieve more than perpetuation of it, since more hatred is being created?
I can't speak for England or the UK but in the United States, you wouldn't be able to find accurate statistics because the police, the government, and the media will twist stories into contortions in order to avoid calling something a terror attack.
Ohhhhh! That's soooo funny... Stats...0, or nothing . So by the stats here you're number 1 in disregarding stats as meaningful.Statistically of 1 in 7.