Report: Right-Wing Extremism A Bigger Threat Than Islamic Extremism
C&L has been covering the rise of right wing extremist violence since our beginning days and we’ve seen a huge increase in their behavior ever since President Obama took office. Back in 2009, the DHS issued an excellent report on right wing extremism, which was immediately attacked by Conservatives as a veiled attempt of bias againts…
22 responses to Report: Right-Wing Extremism A Bigger Threat Than Islamic Extremism
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granpa.usthai June 23rd, 2015 at 08:43
right wing extremist will be no threat at all when Americans start using their 2nd Amendment Right to keep and bear NUCLEAR ARMS (then you will indeed see Unregulated Militias of one) … and this right shall not be infringed upon.
bpollen June 24th, 2015 at 16:29
But you can’t hug your kids with Nuclear Arms…
Obewon June 23rd, 2015 at 09:08
DHS: “An attack by right wing radicals is either carried out or foiled every 34 days” in the USA via DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson. Partial list of FBI Crime Data linked Terrorism Directed At ‘Liberal’ And ‘Government’ Targets July 2008-2011. http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern
Just 31% of U.S. households own guns but commit 2/3 of Homicides in America: USA “right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year (1 everyday now, sans frozen February.) in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities” via http://www.alan.com/2015/06/18/we-were-warned-right-wing-extremists-bigger-threat-than-muslims/
LibtardLobotamy June 23rd, 2015 at 09:34
If “more guns cause more crime” why aren’t White deaths more than African deaths?
7/15/14 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/15/the-demographics-and-politics-of-gun-owning-households/
Whites ownership of guns is over twice that of Africans: 41% versus 19%.
8/20/14 http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-20/the-stark-statistics-on-young-black-men-and-gun-violence
“A young black man is nearly five times more likely to be killed by a
gun than a young white man and 13 times more than an Asian American
man.”
5/7/13 http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/
Black deaths caused by guns are over double those of White deaths, 55% versus 25%.
Maybe this phrase is the truth: “More Africans cause more crime.”
whatthe46 June 23rd, 2015 at 09:46
it’s not a “maybe” that you’re are in uninformed fk’n idiot. denial hurts you so much, you must live 24/7/365 with migranes.
LibtardLobotamy June 23rd, 2015 at 09:51
I guess pew and bloomberg are all wrong then.
whatthe46 June 23rd, 2015 at 10:54
you’re damn straight!
greenfloyd June 23rd, 2015 at 10:05
And I suspect a young black man is more likely to be killed by another young black man than a “right-wing extremist.”
fahvel June 23rd, 2015 at 10:10
other than racist rambling, what the hell are you talking about?
mea_mark June 23rd, 2015 at 10:11
You have been banned before and you are banned again.
TuMadre, Ph.D June 23rd, 2015 at 23:01
Can I ask what it was that he posted that would be bannable? Facts are facts. So long as the arguments he posted are sourced (it seems that they are), I don’t understand why facts about gun ownership and gun deaths are out of place in this discussion. Correlation doesn’t necessarily equate to causation, and everyone on this board seems intelligent enough to understand that.
I am just asking because I want to be clear on what I am and am not allowed to post.
mea_mark June 24th, 2015 at 08:22
He was banned for sneaking back in, this time. I don’t remember why he was originally banned. I will say though, that his handle being offensive, sure made it an easy decision to ban.
TuMadre, Ph.D June 24th, 2015 at 08:39
Fair enough. Hope my handle isn’t offensive enough to be banworthy (I just thought it funny)!
Obewon June 24th, 2015 at 09:00
I banned 3 more of his LL ID’s this past weekend for trolling.
If an extremist gnat collides with an accelerating windshield, does its limited awareness ever clue it in to reality?
Dwendt44 June 23rd, 2015 at 11:46
And black men are very much more likely to be poor, discriminated against and abused or at least harassed by LEOs.
TuMadre, Ph.D June 23rd, 2015 at 21:32
Blacks also happen to make up roughly 50% of all gangs, despite making up 13% of the population. I don’t have any studies to back this presumption, but I do think it would be safe to presume that being a part of a gang, or even living around gang activity, would naturally put your life in greater danger.
Obewon June 23rd, 2015 at 23:40
‘A white person is 5 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, than to be shot with a gun’-Darwinism via Washington Post analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
TuMadre, Ph.D June 24th, 2015 at 01:44
They are, and that’s why we need to teach responsible use.
A person who drinks alcohol is also more likely to get a DUI, or to kill someone in a crash. That is why we need to teach the responsible use of alcohol.
greenfloyd June 24th, 2015 at 01:52
The conclusion I read reports both forms of extremism noted here are “tiny” compared to the daily murder and mayhem in America. If we want to find the main source of gun violence that kills and injures the most people, I think we need to look elsewhere.
johnnybizzoy June 24th, 2015 at 23:25
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/06/24/study-right-wing-extremists-a-bigger-threat-to-us-than-islamic-terrorists/
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Are white Americans the biggest threat? It depends how you define the word “threat.” The Heritage Foundation released an update to their own study earlier this month that showed law enforcement authorities preventing 69 separate Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/11, the most recent being the Boston plot to kill Pamela Geller. Some of those were mass casualty plots that could have killed hundreds of Americans
phatkhat June 25th, 2015 at 15:34
In other words, about 5 per year. (And for this we are subject to mass spying and other infringements on our civil liberties?) And, of those 5 per year, how many were “setups” by the FBI or other intelligence agencies?
johnnybizzoy June 25th, 2015 at 17:14
virtually all of them, if not entirely all of them