Also, it's just not much of a threat.  This is a misstatement.  Acts of terrorism are identified for the way they are carried out and those that they target. "Not much of a threat" is completely a lie otherwise it wouldn't be considered "terrorist."

Car accidents, cancer, and 10896 other things harm more people every day. Aging results in more deaths than many things as well.  The argument you're making is based on a fallacy.  I am not saying fallacy arguments are wrong, but you can't use one if you want to prove a point. If people just ignored it not possible due to the nature of the attacks, treated it like the stats of people killed by falling coconuts, it would all be fine. But the public, media and government each work to blow it up into a big external threat of war each for their own agenda or just out of ignorance. Not quite.  Our society is an information-enriched society.  Terrorist attacks will not go ignored. What you're saying shows a lack of understanding of terrorism.

Such that there is a way to prevent terrorism, it is better education of young people BEFORE they become ideologically compromised.

No, Terrorists are not crazy or particularly "compromised."  You can't just "educate" people and they will be okay.  There are well-educated perfectly mentally stable people who are terrorists... in fact, most are.

In particular:

- Paying attention to children with mental illness. The school shootings are always done by that one quiet kid who everyone ignored or mistreated throughout their life. There needs to be early and regular intervention School shootings are not terrorist attacks.
- Having a functional secular school system in Islamic countries, instead of letting it all be run by the mosques and emphasising the Quran over arithmetic, science and literacy. Terrorism exists even in America.  Not all of terrorism is religiously-based.  Your proposal will not even help much if at all.

So yeah I propose ignoring terrorism 100% (never speak of it again) and fix society's other problems in terms of education and social support in their own right. This is as realistic as telling the world to convert to communism with no corruption the way communism is supposed to be and think it would work.

- Terrorism is not a threat, as in for an individual the statistical likelihood of being injured by one is extremely low

Then the word "threat" is being misused here. It doesn't pose a large "danger" to the majority of people.  However, terrorism is still very much a threat regardless of whatever you say about it.  Think about what the word even means.

 
- Which fallacy? Do you not think we should attend to the more common causes of death first, especially ones where there are obvious fixes that could benefit from the sweet counter-terrorism cash going around?

This is obviously not how it works and the fallacy I'm referring to is one akin to a straw man fallacy.  I am not good with the names of the fallacies, I just know one when I see one.

 
- Reporting the facts is OK. It's the political messaging afterwards I have a problem with - the "we will not negotiate with these people" line of thinking. Even just pulling the President off holiday to say something is a bad idea. Don't give it attention.

There's a lot more going on in the background than you think.  A whole lot of factors are present here.  I would like to list the factors, but I don't really think I should spend so much time into my replies.

- Not education as in, "we can teach it out of them". Education as in, we can provide a better future for everyone in general so that the specific grievances that lead to terrorism do not arise. In the Middle East it's unstable, oppressive regimes. In the US it's generally poor economic prospects for the poorest in society.

I do not understand how this stops terrorism. It may reduce crime, but all the same it is something much much much easier said than done.

- School shootings ARE terrorist attacks for the purpose of this thread. The motions the government goes through are basically the same. The curbing of civil liberties shortly after one happens is exactly the same. And my solution applies the same -  have an acceptable level of death and get on with your lives.

I think you're just making stuff up now.  For the purpose of this thread?  That doesn't make any sense.  The way people respond to these things are not what constitutes it as terrorism.  Terrorism is not an act of insanity.  Terrorism always has a goal, or a message. Terrorism can strike schools and could be disguised as school shootings, but there would have to be some sort of political or religious message behind it and it should be a clear message.

- My second proposal there only applies to Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. I'm under no illusion that all terrorism is Islamic but the part that is, is often their school systems' fault.

Even if it does only apply to those areas, it still does not fix the problem.  It may just make things worse.

- No it isn't. If Obama shut the fuck up about terrorism that would be 50% of the way to being fixed I'd say. No idealism necessary.

This statement makes it pretty clear how little you understand about terrorism.  Obama "shutting up" about terrorism doesn't "50% of the way" fix it.  That's not even close to it.  If Obama stopped talking about terrorism, and an act of terror may have happened here in the United States you really have no idea how the public would react.  There are a lot of things said by Obama that's either targeted at the public or for other states (as in countries) to hear.  Also, idealism is very much necessary to accomplish almost any of what you said.  Claiming that it's all corruption and the dirty politicians are the reason we are in the mess we are in today and without it everything would be fine or at least much better is just pure ignorance.  Issues are not fixed so easily.  There are a lot of decisions most people don't even understand and even those who are making the decisions don't understand.  There's also the fact that hindsight is 20/20.