<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15591-gun-murders-vs-terrorism-by-the-numbers">http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15591-gun-murders-vs-terrorism-by-the-numbers</a><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font><div><div id="center" class="two" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; min-width: 410px; float: left; width: 673px; height: auto !important; min-height: 100%; "><div class="contentpaneopen artp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div class="art02" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p class="wtext" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 165px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 450px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; visibility: hidden; height: 0px; "></p><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 10px; font-size: 10px; left: 33px; position: absolute; top: 164px; visibility: visible; width: 430px; border-top-width: 0pt; border-right-width: 0pt; border-bottom-width: 0pt; border-left-width: 0pt; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-color: initial; float: left; z-index: auto; "><img border="0" alt="Juan Cole; public intellectual, prominent blogger, essayist and professor of history. (photo: Informed Comment)" title="Juan Cole; public intellectual, prominent blogger, essayist and professor of history. (photo: Informed Comment)" width="320" height="146" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " id="619cc10a-eedb-4410-b5e0-6bd1bcdf05f6" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:15AAED6F-3158-44C5-85C2-719C604D5730"><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Juan Cole; public intellectual, prominent blogger, essayist and professor of history. (photo: Informed Comment)</div><div class="txtimg" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 280px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-left: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><h1 class="txttitle" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; width: 475px; ">Gun Murders vs. Terrorism by the Numbers</h1><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; ">By Juan Cole, Informed Comment</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(220, 59, 65); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">17 January 13</div><div style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; "><img border="0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " id="5236fe54-b74b-49a6-9c76-5958589aafe8" height="25" width="29" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:5ADE2B79-28FE-4601-9BBB-0F954653AF3B">umber of Americans <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terrorism-should" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">killed in domestic terrorist attacks</a>, 2002-2011: 30</p><p class="indent" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; text-indent: 30pt; ">Number of <a href="http://sbcoalition.org/2011/04/gun-violence-and-the-census-sobering-statistics/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Americans murdered by firearms</a>, 2000-2011: 115,997</p><p class="indent" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-align: left; line-height: 17px; font-size: 15px; text-indent: 30pt; "><a href="http://nation.time.com/2011/06/29/the-5-trillion-war-on-terror/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Cost of the War on Terror</a> since 9/11: $5 trillion</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>