how many terrorist attacks have there been in america?
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Terrorist incidents map of the United States 1970–2017. A total of 2,872 incidents are plotted.
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There is an obvious terror threat, because unfortunately that's the world we live in now. People are also scared of being involved in an acid attack where there are masses of people and no one wants to get caught in the middle of any fights that may erupt. But those risks come with any event.
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People travel across the world for clear waters and big waves, but do you ever stop to think about the dangers lurking beneath the great blue sea? The United States has the most recorded shark attacks of any country, with a grand total of 1,441 since 1580.
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Since 2000, there have been 16 commercial plane hijackings, including the 9/11 attacks. During this period, there have been roughly ~400,000,000 flights. That puts us at 0.000004% chance of plane hijacking per flight. This is about 10 times more likely than you getting struck by lightning, today.
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Emergency workers killed in the September 11 attacks. Of the 2,977 victims killed in the September 11 attacks, 412 were emergency workers in New York City who responded to the World Trade Center. This included: 343 firefighters (including a chaplain and two paramedics) of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY);
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The hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with al-Qaeda. Fifteen of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia, two were from the United Arab Emirates, one from Lebanon, and one from Egypt.
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280 of those were killed by IEDs. In 2010, IED attacks in Afghanistan wounded 3,366 U.S. soldiers, which is nearly 60% of the total IED-wounded since the start of the war. Of the 711 foreign soldiers killed in 2010, 630 were killed in action.
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We examined 10 years of shootings on K-12 campuses and found two sobering truths: School shootings are increasing, and no type of community is spared. Over the past decade, there were at least 180 shootings at K-12 schools across the US.
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At the beginning of 2018, Education Week, a journal covering education in the US, began to track school shootings - and has since recorded 23 incidents where there were deaths or injuries. With many parts of the US having about 180 school days per year, it means, on average, a shooting once every eight school days.
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This is a list of terrorist attacks in France in peacetime from 1800 to the present. Several 19th-century French rulers were targeted in unsuccessful assassination attempts which killed innocent bystanders. Since 1970, more than 400 people have been killed and over 1,700 others injured in terrorist attacks.
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180 school shootings. 356 victims. Since 2009, at least 177 of America's schools experienced a shooting.
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Burglaries happen every day—about 4,520, to be exact. With more than 1.6 million homes burglarized each year, it's completely natural to worry about the odds of someone breaking into your home. Taking security measures seriously can help you avoid becoming just another home break-in statistic.
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According to the Indian government, 257 terrorists were killed in Jammu and Kashmir in counter-terrorist incidents in 2018. That same year, there were approximately 614 terrorist-related incidents in the region and along with 91 defense personnel, 38 civilians were killed.
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In 2017, British intelligence MI5 said that Northern Ireland is the most concentrated area of terrorist activity "probably anywhere in Europe", with weekly threats from dissident Irish republicans. Europol report all deaths from terrorist activity in 2018 were caused by jihadist terrorism.
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According to the 9/11 Commission Report, 26 al-Qaeda terrorist conspirators sought to enter the United States to carry out a suicide mission. In the end, the FBI reported that there were 19 hijackers in all: five on three of the flights, and four on the fourth.
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Yet the TSA has never caught a terrorist because there aren't that many people in the U.S. trying to take down aircraft. TSA is actually harmful, not merely ineffective. TSA wait times create easy terrorist targets.
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The University of Sydney, in a 2016 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found Australia hadn't experienced a fatal mass shooting – one in which five or more people are killed – since the 1996 shooting. In the 18 years prior, 1979-1996, there were 13 fatal mass shootings in Australia.