Extreme Vetting

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Originally Posted by Danzig

You cannot say it is absurd when it is true, and then say you want decisions based on facts.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...afraid/384965/

And how do Americans celebrate this extraordinary success? By denying it. Every year Gallup asks whether crime has gone up or down since the previous year. Every year, rain or shine, the public insists, usually by overwhelming margins (63 percent to 21 percent in 2014), that crime has risen. “Most Americans Unaware of Big Crime Drop Since 1990s,” announced the Pew Research Center in 2013; only 10 percent of those surveyed knew that gun crimes had gone down since the 1990s. Criminologists say that many people get angry when told that crime is decreasing.

Perception is even more skewed where terrorism is concerned. “Terror-ism Worries Largely Unchanged,” ran another Pew headline, also in 2013. That year, 58 percent of the public was worried about another terrorist attack in the United States, a rate not all that much lower in October 2001, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, when 71 percent of the public was worried. A few months ago, perhaps influenced by isis’s atrocities, a large plurality of respondents told NBC News/Wall Street Journal pollsters that the country is less safe than it was before 9/11
Reality, once again, tells us otherwise. State-sponsored international terrorism, writes the intelligence analyst Paul R. Pillar in Cato’s A Dangerous World?, “is today only a shadow of what it was in the 1970s and 1980s.” As for the risk posed by terrorism inside the United States, to characterize it as trivial would be very generous. Americans are about four times as likely to drown in their bathtub as they are to die in a terrorist attack. John Mueller of Ohio State University and Mark G. Stewart of Australia’s University of Newcastle estimate the odds of such deaths at one in 950,000 and one in 3.5 million, respectively.

Facts and stats. What you claim you want.

As for refugees, you have railed against them from day one. You post a link thst distorts the facts in the original story, and think it tells the true story. No, it just fits your story. And then you have the nerve to say i am stupid or a troll. Amazing. You dont like what i post, so you once again stoop to name calling. Cannot argue the post, so attack the poster. Typical.

Plagerize much?

Distort. Throw up a straw man. Argue an argument that is not being argued. Find nonsenssical " facts" from Huffington post or other liberal rags and expect us to respect them as "facts". That is your game we are on to it.

Please spare us with the you are more likely to die in the bathtub nonsense. You can apply that nonsensical logic to anything. How many have to die before ANYTHING will ring the bell of statistical significance? Tell those parents of kids who lost their lives in San Bernadino and Orlando that terroisim is not a threat in this country. Tell those who lost loved ones in France and Germany that terrorism isnt a threat in their country either.