Putting terrorism deaths in U.S. in perspective

According to an article in Bloomberg Business Week. "Since September 11, 2001, the death toll from extremist Islamic-inspired terrorism in the U. S. stands at 45, including the 14 people killed" in the San Bernadino massacre.    That comes out to just over 3 per year.

Of course, that's 3 per year too many.   But look at it in the perspective of more than 11,000 gun homicides, 21,000 gun suicides, and 30,000 deaths in auto accidents each year.

If we're not willing to restrict the purchase of every type of gun anybody wants to buy, and if we're not willing to do something more about highway accidents (like enforcing a lower speed limit) -- then why would we give up our defining values of freedom and tolerance to try to prevent the deaths of a minuscule fraction of those numbers of deaths (3 vs 30,000)?

Just to make that clear:   There are 10,000 deaths in traffic accidents for each death by terrorists claiming to be Islamic.

Ralph