U.S. Sailor passes away from wounds and becomes 5th victim from the Chattanooga shooting.

You completely side stepped my point. If you count the total number of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1980 and 2005 - including 9/11 - Islamic extremists are responsible for only 6% of them.

One highly damaging attack doesn't suddenly mean just about all terrorists are Muslim. It's factually incorrect. 9/11 is a gigantic outlier and completely skews the data on the number of deaths caused by Islamic extremists on U.S. soil. 9/11 resulted in just under 3000 deaths. The second most deadly attack was the Oklahoma City bombing, with 168 deaths. 9/11 resulted in nearly 20 times the number of fatalities as the second largest terrorist attack.

Excluding 9/11, there were a total of 527 fatalities due to terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1970 and 2014. So 9/11 accounts for 85% of all fatalities from terrorist attacks during that 44 year span. The Oklahoma City bombing accounts for 5%, and all other terrorist attacks - over a 44 year span! - account for 10%. There were 244 terrorist attacks with at least one fatality, and 2646 total attacks in that time. Less than 1% of terrorist attacks (9/11 and Oklahoma City) account for 90% of fatalities from terrorist attacks.

Basically the only reason people fear attacks by Islamic extremists or think they're extremely prevalent is due to the severity of 9/11.

Here's what I used:

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?page=1&casualties_type=b&casualties_max=&start_yearonly=1970&end_yearonly=2014&dtp2=all&country=217&count=100&expanded=no&charttype=line&chart=overtime&ob=TotalNumberOfFatalities&od=desc#results-table

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