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More U.S. citizens have been killed by police than by terrorists
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMore have been killed by obesity i.e. McDonalds.
- ahains 11y agoI totally agree with the point that the total number of murders from terrorists has not been that big in the grand scheme of things (not to make light of it). However, this kind of statistic is often used to justify a claim like "you are more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist," and I think that point of view is ridiculous. Surely some significant percentage of people killed by the police directly caused the showdown that killed them. I believe my personal likelihood of being killed by a cop to be very low because I plan to never endanger the life or limb of the police or innocent folks around me.
- marssaxman 11y agoThat only works if you're white.
- smileysteve 11y ago> some significant percentage of people killed by the police directly caused the showdown that killed them It's not quite direct, but the concept of "BlowBack" means that as taxpayer's, every citizen has at least an indirect relation to fanatic islamic terrorists that killed them.
- V-2 11y agoAnd even more citizens got killed by their own husbands
- pc2g4d 11y agoVery cool map, frightening data. I wish the map could be filtered by race, gender, type of confrontation, etc.