Within the last 50 years, no person on US soil has been killed by anyone from the 7 countries on Trump's immigration 'ban list'
Over the last 20 years on average 1.5 US citizens are killed by foreign terrorists each year.
However, over the same time frame 7 US citizens per year are killed by acts of terror by US citizens.
By comparison, on average per year;
69 are killed by lawnmowers
21 killed by a gun in the hands of someone under the age of 4.
737 killed "in the bedroom"
11,737 shot to death by another American Citizen.
Between 2001 and 2014 440,095 US citizens died on US soil from firearm injuries. In the same period, the total of US citizens killed outside as the result of any terrorist attack was 369.
In 2001 2,983 US citizens died on US soil as a result of acts of terrorism. In that same year 29,573 were shot and killed by US citizens.
A US citizen currently has a 1:7 chance of dying from a heart attack, 1:7 chance of dying from cancer, 1:98 suicide, 1:138,324,873 from the act of a foreign born terrorist, and 0:1 from a person on the visa waiver scheme.
A US citizen is 29 times more likely to die from an asteroid strike than the act of a foreign born terrorist.
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