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J.D. Tuccille: Americans learn to live with the threat of terrorism

Under threat, regular people are becoming their own first line of defence

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In recent weeks, months, and years, the world became — more than before — a keep-your-head-on-a-swivel kind of place where terrorism regularly features in U.S. headlines. It’s not something anybody planned on getting used to, but it’s become part of the background noise of life.

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Last Thursday’s apparently uncoordinated attacks in Virginia and Michigan followed similar incidents in New York City and Austin, Texas. Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the convictions of nine Antifa members who shot up an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre and wounded a police officer. This, as Luigi Mangione faces trial on charges that he assassinated UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and Tyler Robinson is charged with the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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These recent incidents of violence, and too many more, all satisfy the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) definition of terrorism as “criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals” whether domestic or foreign in inspiration.

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