Lets say a somewhat advanced and well organized/funded "terrorist group" embarked on a crusade against a certain demographic of people. Let's say in several years time, they've managed to kill over 200,000 civilians, mostly through random bombings. They have no issue with sacrificing several of their own civilians during these bombings either. Most would probably consider such a thing beyond terrorism and call it genocide, and vow to retaliate.
That group is America, and those civilians are mostly from Iraq, as well as Afghanistan. You can't remove the way somebody feels after watching their family get blown up. There's literally millions of people over there feeling that right now. But somewhere they haven't really retaliated via "terror attacks". Alright I stand corrected, several people got squashed in London recently.
Is that seriously considered a threat?
More people die from hot dog related incidents every year than from terrorist attacks. A lot more.
Hot dog related incidents.
Let that set in.
I think the real question is, how can we utilize safe hot dog eating practices to minimize casualties.