The Misguided Logic of Keeping Calm in the Face of Terror

No, chances are you won't die in a terrorist attack. But citing statistics about calculated horror misses the point.

Bastille Day is France’s national day — the day the French Republic celebrates the most iconic moment of the revolution that brought it into being: the storming of the notorious Bastille Prison in Paris on July 14, 1789.

On Thursday, at about 11 p.m., as friends and families reveled in the fireworks on the glorious Mediterranean seafront in Nice, a man drove a truck through them for more than a mile. The carnage killed 84 people, including many children, and left dozens of others gravely injured....

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