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• Daishiman 5y ago
  Not having lived through McCarthyist hysteria but having lived the War On Terror(TM) hysteria, I'm thinking that the kind of comment from OP is premature and not really founded on evidence. There is a very real threat of domestic terrorism in the US and by all accounts most Western governments (with the possible exception of Germany) haven't been paying enough attention.
  • pseudo0 5y ago
    Domestic extremists kill about 40 people a year on average (including domestic Islamic extremism), based on the fairly expansive definition of extremism used by the ADL [0]. So a year of extremist murders for the entire nation is roughly on par with a typical month of murders in Baltimore. Or alternatively bee stings kill roughly 60 people per year. For a fraction of the cost and none of the civil liberties risk, we could save 1.5x the lives by giving everyone a free Epi-pen. [0] - https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2020#exploring-the-numbers https://www.adl.org/murder-and-extremism-2020#exploring-the-... [1] - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6829a5.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6829a5.htm