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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Mr Mannn on November 20, 2015, 08:29:56 PM
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This is stupid.
http://www.discussionist.com/1016148907#post7
Isidore (392 posts)
Terrorist Attacks: putting things into perspective.
Terrorism a real problem right? It must be. Republicans make a big deal of it. The press makes a big deal of it. Politicians want to pass laws to stop terrorist attacks. There is a constant drumbeat about how terrorist attacks are imminent and how we "have to do something".
According to CNN, the number terrorist attack deaths were 18 in 2012 and 21 in 2013. So how does the number of people killed in terrorist attacks stack up to other ways people die?
Let's compare approximate number deaths in the U.S. and their causes:
389 mass shooting
355 falls from ladders
100 bee stings
100 being scalded by hot tap water
717 all-terrain or other off-road motor vehicle
450 falling out of beds in the United States each year
341 drowning and submersion while in or falling into bath-tub
567 drowning and submersion while in or falling into swimming-pool
1,135 drowning and submersion while in or falling into natural water
742 exposure to excessive natural cold
744 Inhalation and ingestion of food causing obstruction of respiratory tract
98,000 people a year die because of mistakes in hospitals
27,483 unintentional “fall†deaths
36,280 unintentional poisoning deaths
1,153 Distracted driving (using a cell phone, texting, and eating)
2000 Stoplight Intersections accidents
6000 tripping and falling at home
5000 eating raw meat
It is good to know that our betters in Washington and the media are focusing on really really important stuff, and are not just pushing fear as an agenda. They really c-a-r-e about us. I'm touched. Truly touched by their concern. They just care more.
Da Mannn (4,347 posts)
1. So to you, the MURDER of innocent people is the equivalent to an accident?
Argentina (7,622 posts)
5. The author of the OP is right. Terrorism is an unusual way to die in America.
Da Mannn (4,347 posts)
6. So to Liberals premeditated Murder is nothing more than an accident.
Da Mannn (4,347 posts)
7. Twice now liberals have downgraded murder to a minor inconvenience
can we really trust liberals with national defense?
Especially when some view murder as no different from a common accident?
john262 (6,158 posts)
2. Is that just in America? Terrorism is a word-wide problem and death inflicted by terrorists
overseas is just as insidious as domestic deaths. Or do only American lives matter to you?
RattyG (270 posts)
3. ok got ya ... accidental death = terrorist attack death ... real clear
Da Mannn (4,347 posts)
4. Deaths by terrorism increased to highest level of 80% in 2014 with 32,658 killed worldwide
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/deaths.by.terrorism.increased.to.highest.level.of.80.in.2014.with.32658.killed.worldwide/70941.htm
Deaths by terrorism increased to highest level of 80% in 2014 with 32,658 killed worldwide
According to the latest Global Terrorism Index report, deaths from terrorism increased 80 percent in 2014, its highest level ever, with 32,658 people killed, compared to 18,111 in 2013.
liberals have no guts to fight terror. They must downplay its significance. That innocents die is nothing as long their agenda is advanced.
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Good job, Mr Mannn, as usual.
Keep giving the enemies of Illumination, Freedom, and Peace, Hell.
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Those people are screwed up in their heads! :mental: :bird:
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What?!?
The infants are downplaying the rather specious, nebulously defined statistic of "mass" shootings?
Why, just a month ago... :whistling:
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Those people are screwed up in their heads! :mental: :bird:
Willfully self inflicted. They don't realize that they are undercutting, almost, their entire gun control argument. Good job, infants!
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It's time to ban ladders. :angryvillagers:
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This is stupid.
http://www.discussionist.com/1016148907#post7
liberals have no guts to fight terror. They must downplay its significance. That innocents die is nothing as long their agenda is advanced.
Well the President did refer to the Paris attacks as merely a "setback" like it was nothing to worry about.
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I wish it wasn't true, but the "own it" campaign isn't being effective against the libs.
They are expert at separating consequences from action.
They are also expert at not taking responsibility for any negative outcomes.
They are also great at not ever being held accountable.
I don't know how they do it, but they set policy but shirk any responsibility especially if the policy doesn't perform as advertised or propagandized.
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Most of those killed by terrorists outside of the US are "brown" and "black" people, so of course many/most DU-folk don't give a @#$%.
As poorly done as security measures have been in the US, there have been few terror-killings in the US since 9/12/2001 (I wonder ... did the source of CNN's stats class the Fort Hood shooting as "terrorism" or a "mass shooting"? That I asked indicates my guess as to the answer!), while terror killings have been horrific in the rest of the world. How is effectiveness an argument that terrorism is not a threat? Or that already porous security can be relaxed?
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Those people are screwed up in their heads! :mental: :bird:
Possibly but as I keep saying the motive is money.
They think what is spent on the military needs to be diverted to them in the way of freebies or outright cash payments.
They have to minimize the need for defense.
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It's time to ban ladders. :angryvillagers:
While we are at it, we should ban hospitals, bees, cars, and cold weather. :angryvillagers:
Speaking of it, hospitals have the highest death on that list.
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Politicians want to pass laws to stop terrorist attacks.
HOW DARE THEY??!! :rant:
TXRadioGuy stole my post. "Setback" indeed. How could you be any more insulting to the French people? It's like when people refer to 9/11 as a "tragedy." It's not a tragedy, it's mass murder. Committed by devout Muslims.
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HOW DARE THEY??!! :rant:
TXRadioGuy stole my post. "Setback" indeed. How could you be any more insulting to the French people? It's like when people refer to 9/11 as a "tragedy." It's not a tragedy, it's mass murder. Committed by devout Muslims.
The former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick said 9/11 was simply a "failure of human understanding". Absolutely maddening. :censored:
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The former Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick said 9/11 was simply a "failure of human understanding". Absolutely maddening. :censored:
He was correct. It is failure to truly understand Islam, just as the media pundits are doing now.