This is the thing right here. We should be expending more energy having a discussion on what constitutes real terrorism. It seems terrorism has become an excuse to bleed money from the general populace to fund initiatives to build police forces into local military units.  It also seems that the media constantly spews the word &quot;terrorism&quot; for anything they believe they can monetize by drawing in viewers. To date, there have only been a small number of events that I can honestly say were terrorism, and besides 9&#x2F;11, everything else  has been at the low end of the scale.