Warp schrieb:
>   Now, this seems to be an utter failure of perspective: Approximately
> 100 children are kidnapped each year in the United States. However,
> over 10000 children die in car accidents each year in the United States.
> That's a one hundred-fold difference. Nevertheless, they still consider
> driving them by car safer than letting them walk.

Well, how many of those 10000 children were /in/ mom's SUV at the time 
of the accident, and how many were /in front/ of some stranger's pick-up 
truck? Or some other mom's SUV, for that matter...

(Are you sure it's only 10000? That sounds pretty amazingly low for 
about half a continent.)

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