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"Average people - even psychotic ones - don't generally commit terrorist acts. ...In fact, until the late 1960s ... no "terrorist attacks" ..."

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How many mass shootings and terrorist attacks were there in the United States before 1966?

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Here's a couple that come to mind:

Tulsa Race Riots 1921

Bath School Bombing 1927

While the source sux... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States

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Tulsa race riots? Seriously? đŸ«¤. It wasn’t a massacre and everyone over the age of 50 knows that. The MSM started calling it that to serve their idiotic woke racist mantra about 10 years ago. Prior to that is was known as a riot. Pure and simple. Two groups of people who didn’t care much for each other started shooting in a little town called Tulsa in Indian Territory otherwise known as Oklahoma.

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Yes, seriously. I am well aware of the oft rewritten "history" regarding the carnage in Tulsa, 1921. It was cited as a counter to the, "terrorism never happened before I was born" refrain. I could have mentioned Vlad the Impaler or maybe the infamous Irgun and Lehi groups.

The truth is that mass murder [by one or many] is older than history itself. Only the means [and the reporting] have changed with the times.... And, one side will record it as the ultimate sacrifice while the other as a most heinous act. We all know who [re]writes the history.

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“The truth is that mass murder [by one or many] is older than history itself. Only the means [and the reporting] have changed with the times.... And, one side will record it as the ultimate sacrifice while the other as a most heinous act. We all know who [re]writes the history. “On that I can agree. And 5 people in a family is killed and now it’s a massacre. It’s all relative

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OK so 2, within 7 years.

Not 1 a month.

Like now.

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