You're welcome to wear whatever...
Though, I'd favor a little more education concerning risk management...
Uno
again, invoking those numbers are mere bromides for the relevance of what such random acts of violence means. Here is why comparing the rate of random acts of violence to such daily life issues is...well for stupid people. Let's be honest.
First: I agree that far too much is being made of this culture of fear and people really can't spend their lives terrified by this crap. It isn't good for anyone, and simply plays into the type of culture that such psycopaths are trying to create. (not to mention that it is fucking amazing for the Gun and Defense industry: More fear! YAY!!!!)
That being said:
--Heart Disease? This is a lifestyle change that is primarily a personal issue. That is something that every person has a tremendous amount of power to control. The chance of heart disease is pretty much even throughout your day; not so much if you think about where you are going and what you are doing when it comes to crazy people that want to murder you. ...something that is relatively unpredictable by the same methods used to compile that pretty chart.
--Cancer? relatively the same thing regarding lifestyle, but even a bit more randomness and "fuck, I lost the genetic lottery on this." Also, what percentage of those numbers represent the elderly who will, by and large, just get cancer because "life"? Is someone else making the personal decision to threaten my life by giving me cancer? No.
--Airplanes and Cars? Modern realities of contemporary life that we all accept for living in a contemporary society. These are things that are
required for developed countries and the world that we have created. As is often the case, the acceptance of such advances in making our lives convenient carry risks. We have deamed these risks acceptable. Terrorism or random acts of gun violence
are not required to live in contemporary society. It is, in fact, a fucking cancer of some of the worst cultures of humanity--there is very much no distinguishing between extremist terrorists, home-grown conspiracy terrorists, and the gun lobby promoting equal amounts of violence, here--they are all cancers.
To compare vehicle deaths to gun, violence, and terror deaths is accepting that these are all acceptable risks of modern society. That is certainly not true and I don't think you believe that. It is the type of logic that a 3rd grader clings to.
Falling, Drowning and Vomit: humanity has been dealing with such deaths for more than 3 million years. In fact, evolution has made us so incredibly successful at reducing the incidences of these events, especially considering that we are upright walkers (not really perfect for our frame), and not water-dwelling creatures. Both eyes are in the front of our face--we see in 3D. Our hands and feet are incredibly sensitive, which allows us to swing between branches if we need, run and determine distance to the ground, balance with our highly-evolved inner ear structure. These are all really cool things. Vomit is funny, because we have this artifact of our history as fish, called "hiccuping." This little flap of skin that separates our windpipe from our esophagus, and allows trapped air to escape from the same orifice that we use to eat; which would also kill us rather quickly if we crammed that necessary product--food--back down the other pipe. As such, we have been mildly successful here, but we still sometimes manage to choke to death when our stomach rejects those things that we have inappropriately introduced into our system and, in most cases, kills us due to yet another ingenious self-defense, our body has shut us down (passed out), because we are trying to kill ourselves with alcohol. ....perhaps this is one that has gotten worse, as we adapted to a lifestyle that promotes enough leisure time to do something so stupid as drink ourselves to death.
...anyway, until psycopaths choose to kill us, en mass, through falling, drowning, or by making us choke on our vomit, I will not consider this relevant.
--Death by Police. That's a weird one. I'm sure a large percentage of those numbers are people shot and killed in the actual committing of real crime, or doing something stupid like getting drunk and pointing a gun at an officer. Yes, there certainly is a problem these days of police killing wantonly, but with such a low rate (8x more likely), one has to think that when you control for people legitimately killed by police, it probably puts police right on par with deaths by terrorist or regular gun-toting psycopath, no? Well, that certainly shouldn't happen. Police are now just as bad as terrorists? Maybe should be more afraid of police...
--Electrocution and Hot Weather: laws of nature, stupidity and well, age. Again, many of these are things we have accepted as life on planet earth. Hot Weather: certainly a concern for the elderly living in non-cooled buildings in dense urban areas, and people walking out into the desert unpreprared, or over-exerting themselves in August...
but still another issue of personal choice, random events that can not really be addressed by humans
Still, I agree. we should stop living in fear