What is terrorism? Wikipedia defines it as " the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.[1]..... Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians).
In 2005 approximately 73 U.S. citizens were killed world wide because of acts of terrorism. This is scary because these are private citizens "not acting in an official capacity on behalf of the U.S. Government". I guess they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe on vacation. I don't know.
That same year in the U.S. approximatively 12,449 twenty to twenty-four year olds were killed by guns in the U.S. This number is a little harder to come by because for some reason (I think the gun lobby) numbers of deaths and injures caused by guns are hard to research. The way I came to this approximate number is from a paper by the CDC. On page 5 of the paper there is a graph listing the leading cause of death among 20 to 24 year olds. I took that number of 21 in 100,000 and worked it into the U.S. population and then divided by 5.
12,449 20 to 24 year olds in the U.S.!
73 All ages World Wide.
Who are the terrorist and where are they?
