exthrower wrote:
Just tuned in to MSCNN and Chuck Schumer started CRYING about the terrorist ban....Unbelievable....This folks, is liberalism...Completely based on emotion....Schumer is unfit to be a leader...
What is completely based on emotion is the idea that terrorism is some massive threat that we need to take immediate, drastic action to curtail. Compared to other causes of death, terrorism isn't even a blip on the radar, but a bunch of scared people force it to be a major political issue.
Terrorism (including domestic terrorism) has killed just north of 3,000 Americans in the past 20 years. That many people die in traffic accidents every single month. The flu kills anywhere from two to sixteen times that many Americans every year.
Yes, we need to be vigilant about security, but a rational, unemotional person with a true interest in saving American lives would have about a thousand things on their list ahead of immigration policy that could get better results for the same money and political capital.
If you're shouting "keep them out!" but you aren't also shouting "fix our roads and bridges!" 200X louder, you are operating on emotion just because someone told you that you should be scared of something.