[rlmorel]

"...Sure the terrorist threat is real, but people are much, much, much more likely to be harmed or killed by easily preventable things we mostly ignore, like automobile accidents or smoking..."

Sure. And we are much more likely to die of old age. I am not being rhetorical here...but...do you see a difference between being killed in an automobile accident and being killed by someone with a car bomb?

[coladirienzi]

The last time anyone in the United States was killed by a car bomb was in the World Trade Center parking garage in 1993. Their may have been incidents involving Tony Soprano types in the interval, that I am unaware of, but unless you are in Tony's line of work, thats a non-issue.

The odds of your being harmed in any way by a terrorist are so infitesimal, as to be practically non-existant. If terrorists want to blow things up, it will happen, and there is absolutely nonthing even the more draconian government policies can do to stop it.