03-20-2019, 08:20 AM
(03-19-2019, 10:15 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It is on the rise, but the number are still extremely low. As for lowest in the US, they didn't give us something to compare it to. Even so, at its worst right wing extremists killed 22 people in a year in the US. While this is of no solace to those killed or their loved ones, that's an incredibly low number. The same year right wing extremists killed 22 people, 2015, over thirty people were killed by dogs.
Again, I must stress, I'm not saying right wing extremism is a non-issue or something we should ignore. However, the raw numbers rather suggest it's nothing close to the problem we're being told it is.
The GAO found that in the post-9/11 United States, 73% of violent extremism was carried out by right-wing extremists. That is how we know it is the most prevalent form of extremism in the US. That was the figure in 2017, which used numbers to the end of 2016. With right-wing extremism on the rise, it would be interesting to see if that percentage has changed or stayed the same.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
