In his statement following the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, President Obama urged the media to compare the number of deaths via gun violence to the number of Americans killed by terrorists over the last decade. The following news outlets and blog referenced data from START's Global Terrorism Database in calculating those numbers:
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