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Originally Posted by Peanut

I get what he's saying. I think if you factor in all the nutjob mass shootings over the past 15-20 years, oklahoma, etc, 9/11 is not going to be 95% of that chart.

I'm sorry, but barging into an elementary school and shooting up kindergarten classrooms with semi-automatic weapons is an act of terrorism. Colorado movie theatre, Mother's Day parades, etc. All that should be on the chart, and from what I understand most of the mass shootings in recent US history haven't been Islamic extremists.

I think you'd then be creating a very different chart, one that would then require a very different title.

This chart only uses data up until 2005, and is based upon acts that are deemed to be terrorist in nature by the FBI. A mass shooting is not a terrorist act in and of itself. Terrorism requires more, and the statistics this is based upon lay those definitions out very clearly.

Domestic terrorism is the unlawful use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual based and operating entirely within the United States or Puerto Rico without foreign direction committed against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives.
International terrorism involves violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any state, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or any state. These acts appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping. International terrorist acts occur outside the United States or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to coerce or intimidate, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum.