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I think if there's any agenda, it's to look for any trends in ideological terrorism in the US. Honestly, I think one thing the data shows that wasn't mentioned
by soylentcola 11y ago
I think if there's any agenda, it's to look for any trends in ideological terrorism in the US.
Honestly, I think one thing the data shows that wasn't mentioned is that there's relatively little ideologically motivated terrorism in the US overall (compared to the prominent place terrorism holds in the national conversation).
This isn't to belittle the death of 74 people in terrorist attacks but once you get past the morbidity of death tolls and averages, 74 victims over 14 years (5 or so per year avg) strikes me as a fairly low number when compared to the typical weight that such attacks are given in policy discussions.