Which Ideology Has Inspired The Most Murders In Terrorist Attack..
Terrorists murdered 3,342 people on U.S. soil from 1992 through August 12, 2017. Islamist terrorists are responsible for 92% of all those murders. The 9/11 attacks, by themselves, killed about 89% of all the victims during this time. During this time, the chance of being murdered in a terrorist attack committed by an Islamist was about 1 in 2.5 million per year.
Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists are the second deadliest group by ideology, as they account for 6.6% of all terrorist murders during this time. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the second deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history, killed 168 people and accounted for 77% of all the murders committed by Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists. The chance of being murdered in a Nationalist or Right Wing terrorist attack was about 1 in 33 million per year.
Left Wing terrorists killed only 23 people in terrorist attacks during this time, about 0.7% of the total number of murders, but 13 since the beginning of 2016. Nationalist and Right Wing terrorists have only killed five since then, including Charlottesville. Regardless, the annual chance of being murdered by a Left Wing terrorist was about 1 in 330 million per year.
I should mention that this isn't being directed at you, just that whoever surmised that the rise in right wing violence being a direct response to a rise in left wing violence is absurd.
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Hmmm don't know how to say this but I don't know if it's all that accurate to inflate the Islamic terror chance with a single event.
Why not? That single event killed almost 3,000 people, meaning you were far more likely to have been killed by Islamic terrorism. You could argue that it doesn't fairly demonstrate the frequency of terrorist attacks, but the article wasn't about measuring that - just the number of murders since 1992.
Except your excerpts from the article literally state the odds of dying to these types of attacks each year based on the flat body count. Frequency and odds of occurrence per year seem kind of similar.
Ok, I see what you're saying. Yes, you're very much less likely to have been killed by an Islamic terrorist attack in 2002 than you were the year prior, and therefore the data is skewed, but (unless I'm mistaken) the main point of the article still holds when you look at it as number of murders committed by group X over group Y.
Yeah, probably should've have stated better that I was just disagreeing with that being the biggest conclusion the article could/should make.
The real thing I should have been complaining about is that fuckin dozy of a line at the end about partisanship stopping us from rightfully saying right-wing and left-wing violence are the same. Holy shit that's some galaxy brain stuff right there.
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