| Rpruett said: Well let's see here ... One is accidental deaths (Which is pretty impossible to prevent). The other is an angry murderer generally who seeks out innocent people to kill and property to destroy. How much money did the acts of 9/11 cost this country? In terms of lost business, clean up, payment to victims families, etc?
By the nature of accidents you can't prevent them. You can prevent terrorism though.
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That's just plain false that car accidents aren't preventable. Over 30-40% of them are due to driver inadvertence alone and are caused by people who probably shouldn't be on the road in the first place. You could easily reduce the number of car accident fatalities by imposing stricter tests on people to get and keep their licenses, take away people's licenses easier, and make older people take driving tests more frequently.
Are you really telling me that 3000 of those 42,000 deaths are in no way shape or form preventable? It would also be cheaper to prevent those deaths than to spend trillions of dollars abroad on a war that many people believe has made us less safe.
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