Five mass-casualty terrorist attacks in Europe in six months, and all but one (Manchester) carried out using rental trucks. Indeed, you are far likelier to die from any of those causes than from terrorist attacks no matter where you live in the world. What makes the "terrorist threat" look big in the West is the natural human tendency to be fascinated by violence. So there will likely be lots more low-tech terrorist attacks over the next decade. The loss ratio is even lower in the United States: 11 killed in four terrorist attacks so far this year.

Source: Bangkok Post August 23, 2017 23:48 UTC