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Thursday, February 02, 2017

Terrorism facts are there. But nobody believe or can see that.

This is my initial thought on this:
Figure was there probably 10+ years. But strangely nobody knew about it.


It was very strange. Because whenever some mass shooting(or similar thing) was happening in United States of America, I am hearing it's terrorist attack--probably all the time.
I don't really read any newspaper or news websites but I still get the news from my facebook or twitter timeline.
Also I can see so many blame going on toward to Muslim.


But once in a while, I saw this kind of post:
src: The Huffington Post - The Freakonomics Of Extreme Extreme Vetting by Todd R. Miller @ Sep 02, 2016
Source: The Freakonomics Of Extreme Extreme Vetting by Todd R. Miller @ Sep 02, 2016


This is actually nothing new because it probably has been there after 9/11.
Here is the other one that I've seen it before--at least, a few years ago.
src: BBC News - Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence @ 5 January 2016
Source: Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016

Those stats were all came from government so it was very reliable source.

I can't remember when I've seen similar one before. (I'm not digging up this time.) But every year government release that stats so I can guess--probably exist around 2012 or 2013.


More recent one you can easily find in CNN website:

This is tweet from CNN:


This is the stats:
src: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Julia Jones and Eve Bower @ December 30, 2015
Source: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Julia Jones and Eve Bower @ December 30, 2015

That's until 2013. And this one is until 2014.



This is the stats:
src: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Eve Bower @ October 3, 2016
Source: CNN - American deaths in terrorism vs. gun violence in one graph by Eve Bower @ October 3, 2016



Gun violence was almost 1,000+ times more but they don't seem to bother....

1,000+ times more were exclude year 2001 stats. Include year 2001--it became 100+ times more.

BBC news said like this:
According to figures from the US Department of Justice and the Council on Foreign Affairs, 11,385 people died on average annually in firearm incidents in the US between 2001 and 2011.
In the same period, an average of 517 people were killed annually in terror-related incidents. Removing 2001, when 9/11 occurred, from the calculation produces an annual average of just 31.
quote from Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016


And you can read BBC's article--Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016, which you can find about the statistics behind violence--such as mass shootings, school shootings, homicide rate, etc.

So above figure prove this statement was right:
Gun violence and terrorism: The US spends more than a trillion dollars per year defending itself against terrorism, which kills a tiny fraction of the number of people killed by ordinary gun crime.
quote from Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence - BBC News @ 5 January 2016



Gun violence stats

If you do google search about gun violence, you can get this kind of result:
screenshot of Google search with gun violence @ January 31, 2017

How many people are killed each year by guns?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.23 per 100,000 U.S. citizens); 11,208 homicides (3.5 per 100,000); 21,175 suicides; 505 deaths due to accidental/negligent discharge of a firearm; and 2818 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined ... (src: Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia) quote from Google search result

If I talked about this, it will be long. So I will just quote my tweet and


you can go Gun Violence Archive website and see it yourself.

And you can see year summary from Past Summary Ledgers in Gun Violence Archive website.

Now is year 2017 and one month was passed. As you can see their homepage--incidents were more than five thousands already.
screenshot of Gun Violence Archive website.



So you think those people were all killed by terrorist--Muslim?



I will keep this screenshot of past year's stats--for just in case.
Screenshot of Gun Violence Archive website's Past Summary Ledgers web page.



These thoughts are all connected my previous writings:



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