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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by OpenStars@discuss.online to c/AskUSA@discuss.online

For me it was only 2 out of at least 3, if I count "hear about" as being more than a casual mention (I wanted the title to be shorter but I actually mean looking up as in reading an article about, to find who / what / why / etc.), and if I ignore the cache of explosives found in Virginia.

For context, the three that I mean were: the driver in New Orleans, the truck explosion in Las Vegas, and the shooting in New York. (Edit: people are saying that the last one is not strictly speaking related to terrorism, at least that we know of. A better title for this post would have been "violent" rather than "terrorist" events.)

Damn, we sure live in "interesting" times! ๐Ÿ™„

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[-] avguser@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

The shooting in NYC sounds like gang-related violence. Supposedly a drive-by shooting at a memorial for a kid that was killed a few months earlier. Everyone has been pretty explicit that it's "not linked to terrorism."

Domestic or otherwise, I think you're being a bit hyperbolic by calling all those events terrorism. Is there a violence problem, sure, a rash of terrorism, I don't think so. There's only one event with a clear link to terrorism.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago

I edited the OP to acknowledge my poor choice of title.

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