Obama challenged the media to compare gun and terrorism deaths. So I did.

[kpete]

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/649748792099622912

Deaths from gun violence vs. deaths from terrorism, in one chart

More than 10,000 Americans are killed every year by gun violence. By contrast, so few Americans have been killed by terrorist attacks since 9/11 that when you chart the two together, the terrorism death count approximates zero for every year except 2001.

Updated by Zack Beauchamp on October 1, 2015, 7:27 p.m. ET
http://www.vox.com/2015/10/1/9437187/obama-guns-terrorism-deaths
https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/649727266835046400

[Fred Sanders]

1. Yep. But FAR too complex to research or chart for the very busy mass media research teams that

Obama challenged and to this day have been unable to find any evidence to present.

[Triana]

2. . . .

[LannyDeVaney]

3. Yeah, but ...

if you make the y-axis scale 1,000,000,000,000, the graphs are practically on top of each other.

Check mate!

[ananda]

4. Nuff said.

No words.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Who needs Terrorists

US crazed gun-nuts and their NRA enablers will do just fine.

I'm really glad Obama made this point so well. Thank you Mr. President.

[Gothmog]

6. Vox did a good job here

[Comrade Grumpy]

7. Somebody needs to tell Wolf Blitzer. n/t

[moondust]

8. CNN.com

[Electric Monk]

9. I posted something similar in March 2013

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1262&pid=428