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Originally Posted by MattyC
Wow is that ever not true. Estimates of teen gang members in the US are over a million. Numbers quoted for ISIS militants are anywhere from 12,000 to 30,000 total.
The difference is who they attack. Gang members tend to attack other gang members and maybe paticipate in some crime against non-gang members in their area. ISIS is hitting places all over the world, in coordinated efforts, but that doesn't necessarily take a lot of people. In fact, the fewer possible, the better I would think. It does, however, reach a wider audience. And they're not just in a turf war for part of a city, their in a idelogical war with a world that has moved on from their barabaric rules.
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I did specify that the gangs were violent. I think the only groups of a similar level to ISIS are the Mexican cartels.