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WHO SHOULD WE FEAR??

“We must keep our country safe”, says Donald Trump at a campaign-style rally in Florida yesterday.  BUT HOW??? That’s really the question we all need to ponder. It’s best to look at the facts, the statistics and then make a rational decision as to who or what you really need to fear.  Here are the FACTS:

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1. MEXICAN DRUG DEALERS, MURDERERS AND RAPISTS:  That sounds quite ominous, however, that statement wasn’t backed up with any facts or statistics.  I have a cottage on the Jersey Shore in an area heavily populated with Mexicans.  I see them carrying vacuum cleaners and buckets into homes they are cleaning. I see them bussing tables at all of the restaurants all over the shore.  And at 5:00pm when they are finished working and the beach is free, I see whole families walking to the beach past my porch.  So I for one, am not going to put Mexicans, illegal or otherwise, on my fear list.  NO FEAR
2. TERRORISM:  Isis is a heinous organization.  Are most of their members Muslim? Yes!    Do all Muslims belong to Isis? No! I am very concerned about our national security and especially my own since I live in New York City which is, a) the Financial Capital of the world, b) a coastal city, and c) densely populated. BUT here are some interesting points;  
3. Between 1975-2015, terrorists born in the 7 countries designated by the Trump Ban have killed ZERO people. Yes, ZERO according the to Cato Institute.*  NO FEAR
4. GUNS: In the same period, GUNS killed 1,340,000 people including murders, suicides and accidents.*  1.34M that’s a lot of people!  A whole lot of people! FEAR
5. It’s TRUE that MUSLIM AMERICANS  both born in the U.S. and immigrants from countries other than those subject to the Trump travel ban, have carried out deadly terrorism in America.  There has been 123 such murders since the 9/11 attack and 230,000 other murders.* NO FEAR
6. Last year Americans were less likely to be killed by Muslim terrorists than being one. That risk is approximately one in a million! * NO FEAR
7. LADDERS, STAIRS, BATHTUBS AND LIGHTNING kill more Americans than Muslim terrorists. FEAR
8. HUSBANDS:  are scary because in America, they can have guns.  In other countries, brutal husbands put wives in the hospital.  In America, they put them in the grave.*  FEAR
9. “I will get rid of  GUN-FREE ZONES ON SCHOOLS”, Trump said last year.  “My first day, it gets signed, OK, my first day.”*  He hasn’t yet…. FEAR
10. The House of Representatives voted last month to end the restriction on people with severe psychiatric disorders buying guns.*  FEAR
11. SILENCERS:  “It’s about hearing protection,” Donald Jr. (Trump) explained in a video made for SilencerCo. , A Utah company that makes silencers. “It’s a health issue, frankly.”*… FEAR

In this case Silence is NOT Golden

**Information derived and quoted from the New York Times article by Nicholas Kristof.

The only fear we have to fear is fear itself.