I totally agree with the point that the total number of murders from terrorists has not been that big in the grand scheme of things (not to make light of it). However, this kind of statistic is often used to justify a claim like "you are more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist," and I think that point of view is ridiculous. Surely some significant percentage of people killed by the police directly caused the showdown that killed them. I believe my personal likelihood of being killed by a cop to be very low because I plan to never endanger the life or limb of the police or innocent folks around me.

> some significant percentage of people killed by the police directly caused the showdown that killed them

It's not quite direct, but the concept of "BlowBack" means that as taxpayer's, every citizen has at least an indirect relation to fanatic islamic terrorists that killed them.

That only works if you're white.

More have been killed by obesity i.e. McDonalds.

At least those deaths are almost entirely by choice.

Unfortunately, we don't know how many of the deaths by police were by choice.

Very cool map, frightening data. I wish the map could be filtered by race, gender, type of confrontation, etc.

And even more citizens got killed by their own husbands