Quote (IgoSoHard @ Feb 13 2017 11:03am)
Except they're not, in any capacity. Terrorism claimed the lives of 5 innocent Americans in January. How many did climate change slay ?
Except they killed 5 people last month. How many people do radical Muslims have to murder a month before it becomes relavent in your eyes ?
2 deaths a month over your chosen interval of 3 months is not a relevant figure. And don't start bitching about the interval since YOU chose it.
Five deaths this month is not a relevant figure. In fact, after 9/11, from 2002-2014 we averaged about 3.5 deaths a month from terror attacks (source:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/03/us/terrorism-gun-violence/). Now, if we were talking about something like a death a day, or a death every other day, we might have something worth discussing. But a death every ten days in a nation of nearly 320 million? Irrelevant. When terrorism is barely beating out lethal dog attacks (about 10 more people die per year from terror related attacks in the U.S. than from dog attacks:
http://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatalities.php), I think we have bigger fish to fry.
I'm not going to play the No True Scotsman game and I'm not going to try and throw out an estimate of what theoretical number might be relevant. But I can tell you that the current number we're at, and the number we were at through Bush AND Obama's presidencies (excluding 9/11, which is an obvious outlier and skews the dataset) is not a meaningful number and not something to be concerned about.