Cato: Political violence is rare in the US
A helpful corrective to the current pessimism.
Also, note that when it does happen, it is overwhelmingly from the right.
Link: https://www.cato.org/blog/politically-motivated-violence-rare-united-states
Replies to: Cato: Political violence is rare in the US
It started with cable news, then Internet news, then social media...
People don't have perspective. The Charlie Kirk killing completely overshadowed a school shooting on the same day and is still the top thing people are talking about.
Meanwhile we have an epidemic of death from various causes happening to 25-44 year olds of which much of it is preventable. Just one example.
Well, I’m glad you have thoughts and prayers.
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6 a month for 50 years.
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The data is skewed by 911 and Oklahoma bombing. The later was right wing. Not sure about the former.
Eighty-three percent of those murdered since 1975 were killed by the 9/11 terrorists. The Oklahoma City Bombing accounts for about another 5 percent. Those murdered since 2020 account for just 2 percent. Terrorists inspired by Islamist ideology are responsible for 87 percent of those murdered in attacks on US soil since 1975.. Right-wingers are the second most common motivating ideology, accounting for 391 murders and 11 percent of the total. The definition here of right-wing terrorists includes those motivated by white supremacy, anti-abortion beliefs, involuntary celibacy (incels), and other right-wing ideologies.
Left-wing terrorists murdered 65 people, or about 2 percent of the total. Left-wing terrorists include those motivated by black nationalism, anti-police sentiment, communism, socialism, animal rights, environmentalism, anti-white ideologies, and other left-wing ideologies. Those murders that are politically motivated by unknown or other ideologies are a vanishingly small percentage, which is unsurprising because terrorists typically want attention for their causes.
No data on the mental illness of the perps but it seems likely it was VERY HIGH.
Stats for justification. Obfuscate reality, always a blessing.
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