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Which countries produce the terrorists?

Now let’s see:

Two terrorists, U.S. citizens, blow up the Federal Center in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people including children in the day care center;Two terrorists, U.S. citizens, shoot and kill 12 students and a teacher, injuring 21 more at Columbine High School near Denver;One terrorist, a U.S. citizen, shoots and kills 12 and wounds 70 at a movie theater in Aurora;Another terrorist, a U.S. citizen, kills 28 people, mostly elementary school students, in Newtown, Connecticut;Two terrorists, one a U.S. citizen (both from a country run by President Donald Trump’s buddy Vladimir Putin), explode bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding hundreds;A racist terrorist, a U.S. citizen, shoots and kills nine worshipers at a predominantly black church in South Carolina;At Fort Hood, Texas, one terrorist, a U.S. citizen, shoots and kills three people and then himself in 2009 before another terrorist, a U.S. citizen, shoots and kills 13 people and injures 30 in 2014.Need I go on?

I was planning a trip to Europe this summer, but I’m afraid that when I try to return to the U.S., I might be denied re-entry because I am a citizen of a country whose citizens have been strongly linked to terrorism.

More importantly, it is a country whose government will not do anything to restrict gun-related terrorism (that defines all but two of the above attacks).

Jeremy Coleman

Durango