The real terrorists....

[Lancecastor]

... Are the American Citizen Spree Shooters.

Foreign terrorists have killed fewer than 50 americans in the usa since 9/11.

Discuss.

 

[Lancecastor]

Over 334,000 americans have killed americans since 9/11.

17 americans have been killed by " terrorists".

 

[parodyluvr75]

We've got a lot of crazy here, mental health care sucks.

 

[KingOrfeo]

... Are the American Citizen Spree Shooters.

Foreign terrorists have killed fewer than 50 americans in the usa since 9/11.

Discuss.

Terrorists have a political agenda. Spree shooters might, sometimes, but usually they're just crazy.

 

[Lancecastor]

An american vet with 800 rounds of ammo in his car got through the unlocked door of the White House.

Call him crazy if you want. He is still an american and a greater danger than some "crazy" raghead in syria or iraq.

 

[JohnnySavage]

An american vet with 800 rounds of ammo in his car got through the unlocked door of the White House.

Call him crazy if you want. He is still an american and a greater danger than some "crazy" raghead in syria or iraq.

That never would have happened had the resident been armed. Notice he didn't break into Vette's home.

 

[Lancecastor]

That never would have happened had the resident been armed. Notice he didn't break into Vette's home.

Your logic is impeccable.

 

[oggbashan]

The effective (i.e. best at killing) terrorists in the US drive vehicles.

There are subsets:

- the drunks
- those on drugs
- those with defective vision
- those untrained to drive safely
- criminals on the run
- those distracted by their kids/partners
- those using their phone
- those trying to impress their passengers

 

[Bob_Bytchin]

That never would have happened had the resident been armed. Notice he didn't break into Vette's home.

Yeah, but did Vette break out?

 

[Hard_Rom]

Terrorist should figure out a way to donate to the NRA. Seems the most cost effective way to kill Americans. Or donate to those who are against healthcare reform. Maybe both.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Over 334,000 americans have killed americans since 9/11.

17 americans have been killed by " terrorists".

Where did you get that figure? I come up with about half as many from 2001 through 2012. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

I will admit, I was surprised it was that many.

 

[Liar]

Where did you get that figure? I come up with about half as many from 2001 through 2012. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

I will admit, I was surprised it was that many.

Add in negligent homicide maybe? Hit and runs and stuff?

 

[Boxlicker101]

Add in negligent homicide maybe? Hit and runs and stuff?

I think manslaughter, etc. are included under murder. At least there is no separate column for such crimes. Hit and run doesn't usually involve anybody dying.

 

[Lancecastor]

The point is that "Terrorism" is not a real danger.

Americans are the real danger.

Homeland Security is a 3 Trillion Dollar ruse to distract Americans from the country's domestic issues.

 

[Lancecastor]

Good article in Esquire about this.

SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, according to the START terrorism database, there have been twenty lethal terrorist attacks in the United States, resulting in the deaths of forty-six people.

There have been, at most, a handful of assassinations.

According to the FBI, from 2001 to 2011, there have been nearly 250 mass shootings, defined as the death of four or more people.

According to USA Today, whose data on mass shootings is considered at least as reliable as the FBI's, there have been 191 mass shootings since 2006, with 34 described as "public" shootings—seemingly random events, stranger to stranger.

Nearly a thousand people have died; many more have been wounded.

What America feared after the 9/11 attacks—that it would be perpetually attacked by outsiders calling themselves Americans—finally has transpired, only with an awful twist:

It is perpetually attacked by Americans who call themselves outsiders.

http://www.esquire.com/features/mass-shooters-1014

 

[Que]

"The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize." -Chairman Mao.

It looks to me that the motivations of shooters while varied are not that.

Some view it as lashing out at a world that has done them wrong the way BobsDownSouth does.

Several of them likely did it for the infamy, a cycle of stupidity fed by the attention media plays to these statistically non-events.

If they concentrated only on humanizing the victims, and avoided every sensationalistic reference to the shooters and omitted their names, this non-trend would stop.

 

[Lancecastor]

It's hardly a "non-trend", which, if you read the linked article before going all Wynton Marsalis out your pooper, you'd already know.

 

[ryan8558]

It's hardly a "non-trend", which, if you read the linked article before going all Wynton Marsalis out your pooper, you'd already know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS7BYgm0h6k

 

[Que]

So a guy's thesis on the subject makes it a trend when the statistics say that it isn't?

Reminds me of the Bloomberg claptrap where they called every incident that happened anywhere near a school involving a gun including where a firearm averted violence, was incidental, and when it involved no children 'school violence.'

Give you credit though you believe all the liberal claptrap consistently.

Maybe you should start a thread on all the "children' (up to twenty something gang members) killed "by guns" every year.

 

[Lancecastor]

Americans face significantly greater daily danger from their fellow countrymen than from ISIS or any so called "terrorist" organization.

Your Government wants you focused on the "muslim threat" for obvious reasons.

 

[Que]

Americans face significantly greater daily danger from their fellow countrymen than from ISIS or any so called "terrorist" organization.

Your Government wants you focused on the "muslim threat" for obvious reasons.

They face greater danger from auto-accidents and lightening.

And this is different from such tropes as the threats abortionists face from the "christen threat" how?

...or that we must be ever-vigilant for Gadsden flags and NRA stickers?

 

[phrodeau]

Over 334,000 americans have killed americans since 9/11.

17 americans have been killed by " terrorists".

Wow, and not even two weeks yet.

 

[Lancecastor]

Wow, and not even two weeks yet.

Back to School is ammo time!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Violence <> Terrorism

 

[Balladeer08]

... Are the American Citizen Spree Shooters.

Foreign terrorists have killed fewer than 50 americans in the usa since 9/11.

Discuss.

By this metric, the "real terrorists" are drivers, due to the death toll on the roads.

Or people who sell cigarettes.... ?

I thin INTENT has something to do with being labelled a terrorist.