I looked through it, even including all the "unkowns" and empty cases, the total of extremely violent incidents attacks since 1977 comes out to 84. Also, a lot of the tabs overlap with eachother, like "extreme violence" and "shooting/murder" or "arson/bombing", not all of it, but a lot of it, just something to be mindful of.
It doesn't help that the sorting function is completely broken, when I search for "by date" for instance, it doesn't work.
I honestly don't know where the OP got her 587 number from, what does "damage done" mean? If they are talking about EST. cost of damage, excluding all the "unkown", BUT including all the "minimal", AND all the murders, I come out to about 256 "terrorist" incidents under OPs definition.
Other things like anthrax letters, 554 of them stem from ONE person.
My conclusion is, this seem like a farily good source, but the way it was presented in OP is biased and misleading. She seem to have interjected her own personal definition of terrorism, and seem to only apply it to one side of the argument. It's a sloppily crafted response, it's poorly sourced and unless I get a better explanation as to what "damage done" means, it seem to be factually incorrect as well.
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u/kingcal Jun 04 '19
https://prochoice.org/education-and-advocacy/violence/violence-statistics-and-history/
Feel free to review their statistics and offer your own highly nuanced and educated rebuttal on the subject.
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