A ruling is expected within days from an appeals court
reviewing whether President Donald Trump’s executive order to bar entry of people from terror-prone
countries is
discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Because we care about all things relevant the statistical staff here at The Platz has some additional data points to share.
Not one person from the seven countries
included in the ban has killed anyone in a terror attack on US soil in the last
40 years. This includes refugees too.
During this time only 17 people from these nations combined have been
convicted of directly planning or implementing a terrorist attack.
Do not construe the foregoing as diminishing the causes and threats of terrorist acts. For sure international terrorism is a serious
global issue. However, when the risk is distilled
to a matter of immigrants, refugees, and American citizens, the threat becomes
infinitesimally small.
According to a
review by the CATO Institute, the chances of an American dying in a terrorist
attack committed by a foreigner in the US stands at about one in 3.6 million. The breakdown includes attacks over a 41-year
period and includes the 9/11 attack, in which 3,000 people died. Once you narrow it to refugees and illegal
immigrants, the threat is even smaller.
In 2016, the number of Americans killed in terrorist
attacks in the US was unusually high because of the Orlando nightclub shooting. It claimed 49 lives and is considered an act of terrorism carried out by a
Muslim extremist.
However, it's
important to remember that attack was also the deadliest terrorist attack - and
the deadliest mass shooting - in the US since 9/11.
What keeps me awake at night are the morons that text and drive. 37,000 individuals die each and every year in
traffic accidents.
Marinate in that.
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