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Regular everyday murderers kill orders of magnitude more Americans than terrorists. Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a regular everyday murderer, he was a serial killer -
by caf 10y ago
Regular everyday murderers kill orders of magnitude more Americans than terrorists.
Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a regular everyday murderer, he was a serial killer - a category which does not kill orders of magnitude more Americans than terrorists, and a distinction which is entirely apropos in this discussion because unlike regular everyday murderers, serial killers are generally quite hard to identify with usual police investigatory methods.
- AnthonyMouse 10y agoYou're trying to narrow the category but the distinction you're trying to make isn't there. A huge proportion of the "regular everyday murderers" are committed by gang members in communities with the "snitches get stitches" ethos. As a consequence they go unsolved given the usual police investigatory methods. A cynic might speculate that politicians care more about terrorism because gangs kill predominantly poor people while terrorists often kill bankers and government officials.