Sorry for the delay, I've been AFK all day. My assertion (which it, for the most part is) is not based necessarily on body count (which is an important statisti

Sorry for the delay, I've been AFK all day. My assertion (which it, for the most part is) is not based necessarily on body count (which is an important statistic, but not the totality of terrorist goals, which are to assert dominance and terrorize). Consider the number of mass shootings that have occurred in the US this year (294 as of 10/1)[0]. Not all of them are acts of terror, but a surprising number could be considered as such. High-profile mass killings (like the Umpqua college one) are often carried out by young white men who wish to assert their dominance over a culture they feel doesn't respect them. As a rule, I'm probably better off being wary of young white men than young black or brown men (gets to the prior probability problem in GPs post). Consider the broad response to the recent college student protests at Mizzou and across the country. I know of threedifferent arrests for making death threats on yikyak - these are also terrorist acts. They are acts carried out by people aiming to inspire terror in their victims. [1], [2]. While we're on that subject, take a look at what happens to anyone targeted by gamergate activists. I haven't compiled the statistics on death threats targeting people like Randi Lee Harper and Anita Sarkeesian, but I'm sure we can call that terrorism as well. Consider attacks made against abortion clinics. I'll just leave the wikipedia article here. [3] Again: violence enacted with the intent to suppress behavior with which the perpetrators disagree. Terrorism. Think about the astounding number of racial hate crimes committed in the US. Not all of them are specifically terrorist, but a large percentage of them are committed in order to suppress and terrorize a people. I mean, just google black church bombings, or for that matter look to our not-so-distant history of lynchings. We do ourselves a disservice as a people if we only consider as terrorism the big-bomb, large-attack events. There's more to terrorism, and our homegrown terrorism which (speaking perhaps over-broadly here) grows out of sense of white, male, christian entitlement and superiority being perpetuated through violence is something to which we (as USians) often turn a blind eye. We should own our past and do better in the future. 0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/01/2015-274-days-294-mass-shootings-hundreds-dead/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/01/2015-... 1: http://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article_a8145fb0-8af3-11e5-8a08-0b35faaf166a.html http://www.michigansthumb.com/news/article_a8145fb0-8af3-11e... 2: http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/11/suspect-arrested-yik-yak-threats/ http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/11/suspect-arrest... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence