Murder Rates and Violent Crimes in America Vs. The War on Terror and Terrorist Acts!

The murder rate in America is the highest it's been since the 70's. The most current stats that I could find on murder rates was from the year 2005. In that year there where 16,692 people murdered in the United States and it appears the murder rate is on an upswing. Between the years 2001 and 2005 (81,634) people where murdered on the streets of America. Some evidence suggests that the two years following 2005 will place the murder rate in America well above 100,000 since the year 2001.

If you consider a drunk driver killing someone in an accident as murder, the stats explode. Between the years 2001 and 2006, (104,140) people where killed in drunk driving accidents. This is not to mention all of the other crimes (violent and otherwise) against American citizens by American citizens, from property crimes against one another to white collar crime. The monetary losses of crime in America boggles the mind. If you combine the total murders and drunk driving deaths just from the years 2001-2007 in the United States the death toll is (201,140) people.

Now lets look at the lives lost in terror attacks and the lives lost in the subsequent War on Terror:

1983 Beirut barracks bombing 241 American servicemen where killed.

1993 World Trade Center bombing (2-26-1993) killed 6 people.

On (10-12-2000) the Cole was attacked from a small boat by Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, while she was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden, 17 sailors were killed.

1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (8-7-1998) killed 211, 200 Kenyans were killed at the embassy in Nairobi, and 11 Tanzanians were killed in Dar es Salaam, none where American.

The attacks of (9-11-2001) killed 2,973.

Total killed in Iraq in the War on Terror 2,974.

Total killed in Afghanistan 261.

The total loss of American lives, from the year 1983 to date, due to terrorism is 6,472.

Now by no means am I marginalizing the loss of life due to terrorism but look at the staggering contrast between what we do to ourselves and what the terrorist have done to us and think about which one poses more of a risk to the American people. If you compare all the deaths from Terrorism and all the deaths from the subsequent war on Terror and the death toll we create for ourselves, the picture crystallizes and becomes self apparent. We are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the war on terror (with no end in sight) and a mere pittance on domestic murders. I'll let you draw your own conclusion but you'll have to admit the scale is truly askew.

Wake Up America.