MSNBC went into the CA shooters house and displayed a huge lack of ethics

[Benton]

(12-05-2015, 03:23 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: And all that I want is for Americans to realize that they are not insulated from terrorist strikes, and that non-American cultures hate them for the freedoms that they enjoy.  Americans should be reveling in the fact that so many gun owners (legal) would have been willing to defend in the situation that cost 14 lives. 

Fact is: as a free Nation, we are a large collection of soft targets.  Sensible folks, legally able to purchase, and use firearms, should do so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/16/eight-facts-about-terrorism-in-the-united-states/

Some interesting things from the link: 
Your odds of being killed in a terrorist attack are 1 in 20 million.

You're safer now than you were in the 70s (at least as far as terrorist attacks go).

We're still the safest country (at least as far as terrorist attacks go).

And also, I disagree that non-American cultures hate us. That's a horrible and erroneous stereotype. There may be some groups that hate us, but you're talking about a few thousand people out of several billion.