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In response to "It's probably bad that I'm hoping this is what it is. Home-grown crazy is a bit less scary than foreign crazy, you know? -- nm" by Beryllium

My mother said this same thing, and I admit I found myself feeling the same day. But I can't understand why I/we feel that way.

Posted by ty97 Apr 16 '13, 09:45

What makes home-grown any less scary, you know?

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home grown is smaller, more finite? you put Kaczinski in jail, it's done. -- nm - loosilu Apr 16, 09:46 8
- But is it? I mean, since 9/11, we've had far more terror attacks in the US by US citizens - ty97 Apr 16, 09:48 7
  - I do not include school shootings at all. Terrorism is political. There may be fewer foreign based attacks, but they're big. -- nm - loosilu Apr 16, 09:49 6
    - I don't see why 'terrorism' has to be political, but no matter. And there's only been one really big foreign terror attack in the US. -- nm - ty97 Apr 16, 09:53 5
      - Sirhan Sirhan and Ramzi Yousef might disagree -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 09:56
      - the early 90s WTC bombings were intended to be big -- nm - zork Apr 16, 09:55 1
        
        they were pretty big. -- nm - loosilu Apr 16, 09:55
      - it is the definition used by the government. -- nm - loosilu Apr 16, 09:54 1
        
        Thankfully they are not the final arbiter of word definitions -- nm - ty97 Apr 16, 09:58
because if it's foreign, it could mean war? -- nm - amanda Apr 16, 09:45 4
- I don't think a possible war with [insert home country of a terrorist here] is the cause of the fear though. - ty97 Apr 16, 09:47
- And the foreign ones are generally suicide bombers, as well. That's a whole other level of crazy. - Beryllium Apr 16, 09:47 2
  - when IEDs are mentioned, that would indicate not a suicide bomber, and it seems to me that most military casualties are from IEDs -- nm - zork Apr 16, 09:50 1
    - when did this become about military casualties? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 16, 09:52

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