On September 11, 2001 close to 3,000 people were killed in a terrorist attack. Since that day we have killed close to 4,000 and maimed over 25,000 of our soldiers in a fight against these terrorists. We have also given up numerous civil liberties, and have been inconvenienced in our freedom to travel.
Yet over that span, according to FBI statistics over 97,000 Americans were murdered. A rate of over 16,00 a year, and increasing every year. Quite a disparity. None of our presidential candidates campaigns against this deplorable number, nor do we see anything about it in our news media. Even congress doesn't consider it a problem.
It seems the odds are a lot greater that you will be murdered, rather then killed by a terrorist. So why aren't we doing anything about that??????????????????????????????????????????
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You mean, actually doing things to make the country safer instead of creating a whole bunch of meaningless hoopla just because it scares the crap out of the citizenry?
You want action?
(It's a good point to bring up,too, because I was under the mistaken impression that the murder rate was going down.)
No it is back on the rise going from 16,000+ to over 17,000.
A little action would be nice regarding this problem.
Amazing how the Rev's Al and Jesse can prance around in front of the cameras on an occasional police brutality incident; but not a word about the high rates of homicides.
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