If they spaced those 3000 deaths out over the course of 10 years, we probably wouldn't have invaded. But attacking our city with our planes and killing our people in the thousands kinda pisses us off.Strawman? Every four months more people die in the US then in the two towers.
Two countries invaded, trillions of dollars spent, torture, airport screening etc over something that in the last 11 years killed 3000 people. But gun deaths in eleven years are thirty times that number.
So which is the straw man, the war on terror or that the US has more gun deaths then any other western nation per capita?
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