1600 cancer deaths in the US every day.[2]
I could go on with other fatality statistics, but I think you get the picture. Death by terrorism is a very very tiny (though tragic) minority of deaths in the US compared to death by other causes.
Yet can you imagine major US papers (never mind virtually every paper around the world) having front-page headlines like "27 PEOPLE DIED OF CANCER IN THE US TODAY"?
It's preposterous. So is the completely disproportionate and hysterical coverage a relatively minuscule number of terrorism-related deaths get.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...
[2] - https://www.inquisitr.com/2697153/cancer-surpasses-heart-dis...
So most proposed regulation of firearms wouldn't make us a whole lot safer, because it wouldn't address people getting angry and getting their licensed pistol.
(the point being that addressing mass random homicides won't actually make us a whole lot safer...)
2/3rds of deaths due to firearms are suicides this ratio is even higher when you adjust for the accidental discharge which is quite often used when there is no suicide note or a clinical history.
Mass shootings are indeed a drop in the ocean as far as gun related deaths go in the US.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-defilippis/do-we-have-a-...
I live in a region with a real low rate and most of the cases in the news involve people that know each other. I've thought about trying to gather a profile of each incident, working back through time, to try to get a picture of the statistics rather than just relying on my impression. Of course, on top of being a fair amount of work, there are also issues with what sorts of information is ethical to consolidate like that (and especially, names of accused; my driving interest is the relationship statistics, so that is a core issue).
The US military has killed orders of magnitude more people for political reasons (such as getting rid of Saddam Hussein, "liberating" various countries, preventing the spread of Communism, or "bringing democracy") than all the acts traditionally designated as "terrorism" put together. Does that make the US military a terrorist organization?
A nation state attacking civilians in another country is either war or a police action depending on context.
So the same action is called by different names depending on who does it? Quite the double standard.
Exactly. "Terrorism" is just a label to describe the parties involved, not a value judgement. A death is a death whether it's from guerilla warfare, a mass shooting, terrorism, an accident, or a full scale war.