Terrorism is the most overrated thing in politics

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  1. Eyeswideopen1989

    Eyeswideopen1989 Banned

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    You have no facts that confirm your claim, only your interpretation of them.

    You are simply wrong in that interpretation.
     
  2. Pollycy

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    Maybe Jones would have no worries about standing out on a public street and playing "dodge ball" with some loonie-tunes Islamo-Nazi bearing down on him with a frucking truck! :eekeyes:
     
  3. Brewskier

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    Because, thankfully, the Muslim population in the US is very small, despite the best efforts of left-wingers. You wouldn't be saying this if you lived in a Muslim country.
     
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    I have to side with OP abortion kills more on a good afternoon than terrorism does in a year.
     
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    You mean there isn't at least 1.07 trillion people in the world, and that jones343434's statistic is wrong?
     
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    So I guess we should go back to pre-911 airport policies, since hey, it's barely a problem? Agreed? Might as well not wear a seatbelt either because your odds are pretty slim too. I've been driving 40+ yrs, and knock on wood, never got in an accident where a seatbelt would have made a difference. Someone rolled into me at a stoplight once and knicked my bumper.

    Actually the most over-rated thing about terrorism is how quickly Democrats shift their victim cards to particular religions & immigrants. They excoriate the religion that doesn't actually hurt anyone and defend the one that is mass murdering people all over the globe. Think about how batsh!t crazy they went about Mormons 4 yrs back. MORMONS!!!!! Because they were worried about RvWade. Yet Muslims are slicing people's heads off.
     
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    Interesting but flawed logic.

    Despite nominal air crash deaths being much higher as are car crash and sea accidents the and elevator and even broken ladder incidents being much much higher if we were to see a sudden and quite understand accounted for increase in any of these we would logically expect drastic action.

    Thus drastic action against lone suicidal gunmen is also logical and reasonable.

    Your point is a good one but fatality undermined.
     
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    That sort of "reasoning" is BS.
     
  9. Kode

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    Yes, 1 out of 100,000 is significant. Let's see.... that would be 0.00001%.
     
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    It is amusing, a country that has 30000? Murders a year is so Sanctominious about the dreaded terrorists
     
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    Neither did the occupants of the Trade Tower or those in the Boston Marathon.
    Sounds like some of you would rather be re-active rather than proactive.
    It also sounds like 911 has been forgotten already, and you'll be the first to point fingers when something does happen.
     
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    The reason is not higher is because we have thousands of people in our intelligence agencies and law enforcement preventing future attacks.

    If they ignored the threat like you and most other liberals do I'm sure the numbers of terrorist attacks would be much higher.
     
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    The victims and families of those victims would rightfully call your statement bull(*)(*)(*)(*). The idea that "well other things are worse so we shouldn't even do anything about it" is outrageous. I don't believe my house is going to catch on fire and there's only so much chance it will but I still have a fire extinguisher and smoke alarms.
     
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    The word 'terrorism' is quite abused today used mostly for sensationalistic and political purposes. It's pathetic that Americans need a boogyman!

    If Americans can truly be honest I'm guessing 99.9% of us during our normal everyday lives never worry about a 'terrorist' attack.

    And it is okay to compare terrorist attacks on US soil to vehicle deaths, gun deaths, actual war deaths, and even general murder carried out every day by Americans. And in all cases deaths from terrorism is miniscule compared to these other death events. So why do so many Americans worry about a boogyman?

    Yes, the US must spend a lot of taxpayer dollars to make sure we're as secure as possible and it's obvious whatever we've been doing for many years now seems to be working okay.

    If I have any worry at all, it would be worry that a US citizen, no matter their color and beliefs, will go postal in the local coffee shop...
     
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    The real truth is we will never be able to stop wing nuts from doing stupid things...this includes wing nuts who are US citizens as well as visitors to the US. The idiocy here is some of you believe if we ban Muslims we will be safe and this is total BS. The more harsh the US treats Muslims and any other international group, the more likely a sympathizer who is a US citizen will do something revengeful and stupid...
     
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    I have a serious fear about being attacked by liberals and if they get their way more and more terrorist attacks will happen.
     
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    Or we could ignore it and hope it goes away, like you.
     
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    Thank you for your mindless deduction...
     
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    The 9/11 terrorist= Muslim.
    ISIS = Muslim.
    Iran = Muslim.

    Jews aren't in the street chanting death to America. Neither are Christians. It's Muslims.
    Most Muslims are not terrorist.
    But most terrorist are Muslims.

    We shouldn't ban all Muslims but we darn well better check their bags for bombs.
     
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    You would think a dozen guys with box knives or one guy with a gun, are more terrifying than 20,000 nuclear warheads. I guess they are to the little people.
     
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    What has Iran ever done to the USA?
     
  22. OldManOnFire

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    More idiocy here is why not check ALL BAGS for bombs?

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    https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/trump-immigration-ban-terrorism/514361/

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-ban-us-born-terrorists-middle-east-refugees-syria-iraq-iran-libya-somalia-sudan-a7557266.html

    http://www.newsweek.com/where-do-terrorists-come-not-seven-countries-named-550581
     

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