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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Re: DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Post by hypeatei »

Insanity wrote: post #6

I think this is not too surprising? Both the result and the action of hiding it? From my understanding, right-wing usually means more pro-gun. If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower.

> I think this is not too surprising?

I don't think we should normalize cover ups like this especially when it comes to political violence studies. POTUS immediately blamed the "radical left" after the attack without evidence. Not only is that reckless, it's not even the most likely scenario.

> If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower

Guns are easily accessible to everyone in America.

Re: DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Post by Insanity »

arthurofbabylon wrote: post #9
Insanity wrote: post #6

I think this is not too surprising? Both the result and the action of hiding it? From my understanding, right-wing usually means more pro-gun. If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower.

Not surprising, and absolutely newsworthy.

Oh yes, I didn’t mean to say it should be ignored. Just more expressing that sadly I’m not surprised by this action with the current government.

Re: DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Post by jdiff »

hypeatei wrote: post #11
Insanity wrote: post #6

I think this is not too surprising? Both the result and the action of hiding it? From my understanding, right-wing usually means more pro-gun. If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower.

> I think this is not too surprising? I don't think we should normalize cover ups like this especially when it comes to political violence studies. POTUS immediately blamed the "radical left" after the attack without evidence. Not only is that reckless, it's not even the most likely scenario. > If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower Guns are easily accessible to everyone in Amer…

Guns are accessible, but prior gun ownership is skewed, and prior gun ownership is one less barrier to cross when attempting political violence. In theory, that should mean increased attempts for that high-gun-ownership demographic.

Re: DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Post by ck2 »

While it's important to note they are trying to delete stuff like that

it's way way more alarming they are deleting cancer research, for many decades to come

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/magazine/trump-administra...

and the weird thing is no-one quite understands why, this is not even vaccine related

Re: DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Post by Insanity »

hypeatei wrote: post #11
Insanity wrote: post #6

I think this is not too surprising? Both the result and the action of hiding it? From my understanding, right-wing usually means more pro-gun. If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower.

> I think this is not too surprising? I don't think we should normalize cover ups like this especially when it comes to political violence studies. POTUS immediately blamed the "radical left" after the attack without evidence. Not only is that reckless, it's not even the most likely scenario. > If you already have guns, the threshold for terrorist actions is likely lower Guns are easily accessible to everyone in Amer…

True, but if you already have them at home and you’re raised in a family that uses them, presumably the barrier to using one is lower.

Re: DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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Post by BatteryMountain »

Non-american here: if you get to the point where you want to kill another person or groups of people, it doesn't really matter whether you are left/right/pink/blue/whatever. You are unwell. To blame an entire group for one person's mental break is silly. You have no idea what is in another person's head, what their beliefs are, which of those beliefs are conflicting with each other. You might as well say that because the person ate pizza on the day, that we should blame and ban italian pizza places. Silly.

I live in a very broken country too, but our people are not shooting up random places/people. We have many guns too, so we cannot attribute it to that.

I think the kind of person that is willing to kill others (in the american sense, shootings), typically are highly suicidal but since they are able to blame the society or some aspect of society, they come to the conclusion to not commit suicide but to rather attack the system as a final punishment / giving up moment or to assert that they have some form of control. They ofcoarse find no relief there either.

Meanwhile your media and politician use these people as scape goats and cheerleaders for their own agendas. Disgusting in its own right.

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