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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 5 years ago

Americans kill more Americans than ISIS kills Americans. Why are we so focused on ISIS?

Americans have a much bigger chance of being killed by another American, yet they go on about how they need to target ISIS.

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  • 5 years ago

    Two answers:

    (1) A lot of the talk is about ISIS * abroad * and the terror/savagery it is wreaking around the world.

    (2) ISIS has made it quite clear that they want to make inroads into the U.S. Have you read about the Asian Carp in the Great Lakes? It's still not present in some areas, but people are making a big fuss about it. Why? Because they don't want the species to * get there *.

  • 5 years ago

    Well, for one thing, 'ISIS' represents a fixed aim, viz., the establishment of Dar-es-salaam as a global, exclusive of non-Moslem faiths. And that ain't goin' away.

    The Americans who kill Americans tend to be Americans with idiosyncratic aims---aside from those who have adopted 'ISIS' as their ideological sponsor.

    So, with regard to the problem of efficient allocation of resources, a focus on militant jihadist Islamists isn't out of line. Are YOU eager to be slaughtered by some zealot with a hard-on for Mohammed? I'm not. And I am willing to risk being shot by some dinglewad who wants to be a terrorist for a return to the gold standard. I am also willing to ignore concealed carry laws for my own good.

  • And you're even more likely to die from heart disease or cancer, but apparently the media needs something to use to scare us, so right now it's Daesh (the proper name for ISIS). Also keep in mind that Daesh kills a hell of a lot of Muslims as well, probably more Muslims than non-Muslims.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Cause it's our God Given Constitutional right to kill each other with guns. And isis ain't no Murican.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It keeps people's minds off the Democrats failures to protect us.

    It is over 190,000 Americans murdered by our own since 9/11

    compared to 100 by our worst "enemy".

    Brainwashing affects most human sheeple.

  • 5 years ago

    We must love one another or die .... W,H Auden .

    That's wrong because we all die anyway

    and It makes loving seem pointless .

    To me there is NO (OR ) Or (ETHER)

    We should just love each other

    We don't have Guns in the UK ... Thank GOD !

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Because it's our hard-earned and glorious prerogative to oppress the short, brown, stupid, fugly, America-hating masses in countries made of nothing but sand. When are you going to learn if you mess with the best, you die like the rest?

  • 5 years ago

    Because Americans want the monopoly of killing Americans all to themselves.

    Source(s): Proud American
  • 5 years ago

    (in my opinion)isis is so weak now,if they ignore isis it will become more dangerous and stronger

  • Who
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Its nationalism

    who wants wants to be killed by a foreigner?

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