By September 11, 2014, there will have been approximately 585,000 deaths on U.S. roads from automobile accidents since September 11, 2001.

There have been approximately 3,000 – 3,250 deaths from terrorism on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.

That is approximately, 581,750 more deaths in the U.S. due to auto accidents than from terrorist attacks since Sept. 11, 2001.

That’s an average of 45,000 deaths per year from auto accidents, the total of U.S. soldier deaths in all the years of war in Viet Nam.

That’s an average of 250 deaths per year from terrorism, 3,000 of all deaths having occurred in one fell swoop on 9/11/2001.

So, seriously, given the statistics, what are your chances of dying in a terrorist attack as vs. your chances of dying in an automobile accident?

Yet, the media is all about terrorism, terrorism, terrorism.

Question: So, why are T.V. news shows (mainline, conservative and liberal) talking incessantly about terrorist attacks and not incessantly about the real danger to lives in America, that is, traveling by car on the roadways of the country?

Answer: Scaring the bejesus out of people keeps them watching and sponsors love that. The marketing experts know we do buy the stuff we see advertised over and over and over.  Keep them scared, keep them watching, keep them buying.  Buying to alleviate fear?  Feeding our fears?

Since the start of the war on Iraq in 2003, the war effort in Iraq, a country, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the 9/11/2001 attack, has resulted in a total of approximately one million deaths (according to a Johns Hopkins study).

That’s 333.3 deaths in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 for each death on 9/11/2001.

There shouldn’t have been one death in Iraq because of the 9/11/2001 attack, but given that the U.S. Administration insisted and Congress folded, what happened to an eye for an eye, the Old Testament guide from the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi as a guide, not even mentioning Jesus’ fulfillment of the law through the new law of forgiveness, prayer and non-retaliation?

Apparently, as a nation, we don’t even know how to pick the right enemies let alone have a clue about following the Code of Hammurabi let alone listening to the words of Jesus: “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and tooth for tooth,’ but I say to you, do not resist the one who is evil.” “You have heard it said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy,’ but I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who prosecute you.”

I’m all for scaring the bejesus out of us each evening on the news programs about the mayhem on the roads of America. Show bodies being burned alive in the horror on the highways like we showed bodies being blown to bits in Viet Nam.  Maybe we would all slowdown and practice enlightened self-interest, thus saving thousands of lives a year.

By the way, anyone know the sobering numbers on Labor Day Weekend deaths in auto accidents?

Not in yet for 2014. How about 2013? Somewhere between 338 and 459, not counting thousands upon thousands of injuries.

However, by now, as horrible as it was, we have all heard about the one journalist who was murdered by the terrorist group ISIS over the Labor Day weekend.

Could we please have equal coverage for the 400 or so who died on the highways?

I didn’t think so.