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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
In summation: Facts don't matter, only perception.
Yeah, I know, that's the problem.
White nationalists make it their bread and butter. When one could show "any amount of stats,numbers and truths" and be ignored in favor of a boogeyman made bigger by racists and bigots who prey on the weak-minded, then that's not really a defence of guns, that's an indictment of those people.
It's a shame one "little" act of september terror 16 years ago changed the way the west looks at religion, but the equivalent of 12+ "little" acts of gun violence that happen every year hasn't made a difference.
But stats and truth are rarely as powerful as the hate that forms racism and bigotry. Too bad.
Deaths of Americans from Terrorist Attacks (Worldwide) since 2001: 158
Deaths of Americans from Gun Homicide (U.S. only) since 2011-15: 57,822
Not including suicide, death by cop, or accidental deaths, there are (on average) 11,000 gun deaths per year, which means there have been 111,392% more homicides related to guns (in the U.S. alone) than there have been American homicide related to terrorism (in the entire world) since 2001.
Too bad, I guess.
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The "little" act of Terrorism that killed 3000 on 9-11 opened a view point, before that the Americans didn't care much if Muslim's repressed woman, chopped off the hand of a kid stealing an apple, threw a gay person off a 6 story building or even chopped off the head of someone who dared to denounce Islam.
Americans are ok if they kill each other with guns because it's "their" way, hell, more people die from drinking "Pepsi" (username pun) than terrorism but again it's ok as it's their way. But when one American dies for something they don't believe in all hell breaks loose.
Need proof? look who is now president!
In my opinion: If Islam wants to migrate to the west and be accepted it needs some huge changes because too much of it's teachings will never be accepted.