Why don't terrorists target only other terrorists?

@Callmyname Front page news, or something in the police blotter? I had read nothing this last month in the Boston papers about any murders at all. I just found a site that chronicles the data and there were 16. Of those, 8 happened in or near bars. I can't find any stories about any of them. It's just old news.

That's the difference - a terrorist wants you to be frightened that you might be next. They need you to read about it on the front page.

@Callmyname The perhaps your news coverage isn't as blind as ours. The criminal-criminal crime is covered better in cities like Chicago, but they just don't talk about it here. Whether its because they think no one cares or they don't want to glorify the criminals, I don't can't say.

@Callmyname I don't read Chicago papers so I can't say what the day-to-day coverage is. In the national news we hear about Chicago murder rates because it flies in the face of their strict gun control laws. We in Boston do hear about fires, robberies and other events. Shootings that don't involve gangs and things do get coverage usually. The gang stuff just doesn't get talked about.