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OK Mike not to belittle the seriousness of terroism or to take away from the suffering inflicted on the victims and their families by these perturbed murderers but from 2003 to 2014 there were 80 deaths in the US caused by terrorists,that's in 11 years,now to put things in perspective only in 2016, 38 people died from lightning strikes in the US and the average death toll in the US by tornado is roughly 70 per year.What are you gonna do shoot the clouds.Life is a dangerous place in general and people die by many silly ways,just watch the tv program 1000 Ways to Die... (see below).The solution to terrorism is not to arm the world even more than it already is... you could start by not creating the main cause of why terrorists exist in the first place...invading and attacking all those Islamic countries and droning their families to kingdom come.
Fact: in 2016 alone, the Obama administration dropped at least 26,171 bombs. This means that every day last year, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.While most of these air attacks were in Syria and Iraq, US bombs also rained down on people in Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. That’s seven majority-Muslim countries.Pushed to release information about civilian deaths in drone strikes, in July 2016 the US government made the absurd claim it had killed, at most, 116 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya between 2009 and 2015. Journalists and human rights advocates said the numbers were ridiculously low and unverifiable, given that no names, dates, locations or others details were released. The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which has tracked drone strikes for years, said the true figure was six times higher.Given that drones account for only a small portion of the munitions dropped in the past eight years, the numbers of civilians killed by Obama’s bombs could be in the thousands.
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