I ' m not salty . That was hardly a travel . <| sep |> You say that as though terrorism is a major threat It ' s possible that more people died due to behavior changes after 911 than died from the terrorist attacks themselves . Driving is more dangerous than flying . If the drop in air travel after 911 was replaced with driving , then the expected number of deaths from the more dangerous mode of transportation would be on the same order of magnitude as the deaths from the attacks themselves . In the last decade , there have been more Americans that died from accidentally strangling themselves in bedsheets than Americans that have died from terror attacks on American soil . America used to mock the closely tracked papers please dictatorships in the Soviet countries . Now , in response to terrorism , we can ' t shed our freedoms fast enough . There ' s a point at which we need to decide to give up a little bit of safety in exchange for liberty . If we really cared about saving American lives , we ' d be better off investing in keeping drunk drivers off the road .