http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/25/west-europe-is-safer-now-than-in-the-1970s-and-safer-than-almost/ The rise of urban terrorism is not a departure from recent European history but a return to the norm. The exceptional period was the late 1990s, when there was relative peace in our cities. But before then, various political groups regarded the slaughter of innocent civilians as a legitimateContinue Reading

Guns kill more Americans than terrorists do https://t.co/DsCbGsis1u A @WIRED infographic from October pic.twitter.com/mlACN3arJ7 — WIRED (@WIRED) December 2, 2015 Let’s look at guns first. Firearms killed more than 346,681 people between 2003 and 2013, the last year for which numbers were available from the Centers for Disease Control andContinue Reading