Terrorism risk is very low
Daniel Silverman et al, 2022 – Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University“Putting Terror in Its Place: An Experiment on Mitigating Fears of Terrorism among the American Public” Journal of Conflict Resolution 2022, Vol. 66(2) 191 –216, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00220027211036935 //DH
The American public’s fear of terrorism persists in spite of the fact that the actual risk of terrorism for those in the United States is extremely low. Over the past half-century, the chance that an American would be killed by a terror attack on U.S. soil is roughly 1 in 3.5 million, with under ninety deaths per year between 1970 and 2007. Even in 2001, a year when terrorism was uniquely dangerous in the United States, terrorism accounted for less than 0.14 percent of deaths in the country. In contrast, the risk of death from other hazards like cancer (1 in 540), car accidents (1 in 8,000), drowning in a bathtub (1 in 950,000), and flying on a plane (1 in 2.9 million) are all greater than terrorism (Mueller 2006).