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    Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
    We're at a ceiling for the time being, unless or until a much more powerful internationalist organization arises with ideology calling for a focus on the West (Al Qaeda's long-war focus on attacking Muslim governments has regained currency now that IS is foundering), or there is more grassroots animosity in the West. But even then we will be looking at the same orders of magnitude for casualties unless individual attacks can be made much more effective.
    Then there's also the factor of immigration, which is continuously creating a larger pool to draw potential attackers from.

    it makes them feel unsafe at all times and in all places.
    Do you have a source for this? How many?

    Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha View Post
    Statistically there are less victims of terrorism then in the past.
    With the exception of jihadist-related attacks, as shown in graph 3.

    There will 'always' be the danger to people's lives from this and that, but of course we should still try to minimise such risks.

    Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
    The numbers are less meaningful than the story.
    No it doesn't rise to the level (in body count) as the storming of Juno or Omaha; the numbers pale to insignificance when compared to say traffic deaths.
    But the stories, sell papers and drive clicks so we get a steady supply (framed in fact or "enhanced")
    It counts because it is the narrative we get; you could go further of course, say painting it as the puppet show we get to distract from "inconvenient" stories/narratives.
    If you want the media to focus on the things that kill the most people rather than the things that are the most spectacular, you've only just started. I don't think there would much room for Trump's travel ban or his groping comments in this new media landscape.
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