Are you more likely to get shot at school or attacked by a terrorist?

Answer 1

I consider those things to be the same.

Answer 2

Either one is highly unlikely, from a statistical point of view.
But I'm pretty sure the 3,000 dead on 9/11 exceeds the total number dead in US due to school massacres, which is well under 100 for all US school massacres.
A school massacre could certainly be called a terrorist act, but so far in the US, the motivations have not been political. This could change, of course, since politically-motivated school massacres, often by Islamist extremists, have occurred in other countries. There was one in Afghanistan on April 11, killing 6 children.

Answer 3

I think none because it is not everyday a terrorist attacks & to be shot at school that happens in only schools with no protection.

Answer 4

In the United States, you are much more likely to be shot at school. I'm sorry if this sounds crude, but statistically speaking, 9/11 was a fluke. School shootings and shootings in general (not necessarily large-scale ones) are regular occurrences.

Answer 5

Right now, I would expect a shooting at my college first. It's in a tiny town. An international terrorist wouldn't even know it existed. We have nothing here, except corn. Unless he/she was really hungry...

Answer 6

Do the math - it takes a lot of school shootings to equal one 9/11.

Answer 7

Truthfully, I don't believe they've release the perpetrators ethnicity, there is a chance he is Muslim (based on world population 1 in 6 chance.)

Answer 8

I don't know, but the government better do something quick, because I am too dumb to rely on myself for anything.

Answer 9

School

remember, people in the US can do whatever they want

and are more likely to

Columbine, etc... and now this....some people are absolute psychos.

Answer 10

Both of them are very rare occurances, yet they both get media attention.