I WONDER if anyone’s done the maths on how many citizens of the USA have been killed by Islamic terrorists who have entered via conventional routes into the States and set that against the number of victims of shootings by homegrown murderers.
One figure from American sources shows that since the 2,902 deaths of 9/11 in 2001 up to 2014, less than 60 people have died on American soil as a result of terrorist actions.
But from January 1, 2013 to June, 2016 a total of 1,134 Americans are reported to have died in mass shootings (Data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.
A mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in one incident, not including the shooter).
I hope that President Trump will be as speedy in whipping out his pen to sign an executive order rectifying this deadly situation as he was imposing in his ludicrous travel ban.
America has become a laughing stock.
Observer
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