Actually, I think I've seen odds that you more likely to get hit by an asteroid than die in a terrorist attack. Of course, the odds change depending upon where you are.

I've thought for quite some time that the government of the US is reacting to threats that no longer exist. To cite but one example, when the "shoe bomber," Reid, tried to light the fuse to the explosives in his shoe the passengers subdued him (as has been the case with various drunks over the past couple or three years). I have no problem with reasonable precautions, but I do think that the reaction (and it has been a reaction all along) is overdone.