I'm not afraid of terrorism, are you?

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It's actually a very good comparison. Picking up hitchhikers is very safe after all, they are in your car which you are driving and like with the refugees, you can talk to the hitchhikers first and don't have to let them into your car and if you do you can keep track of them. That's how we can vet the refugees in a way the Europe cannot. Also this is a situation that we played a part in creating. How could we as Americans not do something to help?

Also, I'm not afraid of picking up hitchhikers and I'm not afraid of terrorism. I'm not going to live my life as though some worst case scenario is around the corner and I think that's a shitty way for a country to act too.

A gun would probably complicate the 'your car' safety bubble. 

I have become more risk averse due to having a young child.  When she's 18, I'll likely worry about dying less.  But I feel a ton of pressure not to die for the next 10-15 years.  Like I said, I'm cool with you picking up hitchhikers.  But if I was in your car, I'd complain.  If I were in the car with my kid, I'd throw a hissy fit that would scare away the hitchhiker.

How risk adverse can you get? There is also a difference between perceived risk and actual risk. Your risk of dying from terrorism rounds down to 0. Your risk is better of dying of literally anything else. Same goes for picking up hitchhikers, doubly so. I'd be skeptical that even a single person has died from a hitchhiker related murder this year. So there is a point where you can't buy into what you are commonly told.

Edit: Actually there was a lone study done in the 1970s on crime and hitchhiking, which came to the conclusion that picking up a hitchhiker is no more dangerous then any other contact with any other person and that hitchhiking was also no more likely to make you a victim of a crime then say, walking down a random street. During that year, 1974, there was 0 hitchhiking related murders and I'd be shocked if there were any today. Like with terrorism, there is just a disconnect between reality and what we are told by the media.

https://wandrlymagazine.com/article/hitchhiking/