What do they expect to have happen when we have a president that called armed men storming government buildings " very good people".
A majority of the coronavirus lockdown protesters appeared to be white Trump supporters, and many of them were armed with AR-15 rifles.
globalnews.ca
Three family members have been charged in the killing of a security guard who told a customer at a Michigan Family Dollar store to wear a state-mandated face mask, officials said on Monday.
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This was expected though, Trump actually brought in some of the armed terrorists that took over the wildlife refuge and damaged irreplaceable native american artifacts to run parts of his campaign:
en.wikipedia.org
Not only did he bring them to work for his campaign, he pardoned them as well:
The verdicts mark for the third time in 28 years that a high-profile federal case has raised the question ā do far-right anti-government radicals evoke sympathies among jurors that other defendants do not?
www.theguardian.com
Gerald DeLemus, co-chair of the Trump for President Veteranās Coalition, is accused of helping organize the infamous armed standoff with the government
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So yea when you have a president who pardons far right terrorists for their acts of sedition against the US, how do we actually reduce this when they are considered the number one threat against the US right now?
"The United States also faces significant challenges from domestic terrorists. In fact, between 1980 and 2000, the FBI recorded 335 incidents or suspected incidents of terrorism in this country. Of these, 247 were attributed to domestic terrorists, while 88 were determined to be international in nature.
"Domestic right-wing terrorist groups often adhere to the principles of racial supremacy and embrace antigovernment, antiregulatory beliefs. Generally, extremist right-wing groups engage in activity that is protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Law enforcement becomes involved when the volatile talk of these groups transgresses into unlawful action.
On the national level, formal right-wing hate groups, such as the National Alliance, the World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) and the Aryan Nations, represent a continuing terrorist threat. Although efforts have been made by some extremist groups to reduce openly racist rhetoric in order to appeal to a broader segment of the population and to focus increased attention on antigovernment sentiment, racism-based hatred remains an integral component of these groupsā core orientations.
Right-wing groups continue to represent a serious terrorist threat. Two of the seven planned acts of terrorism prevented in 1999 were potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks being planned by organized right-wing extremist groups."
The last five years has seen an increase in right wing extremist attacks in western countries, according to the Global Terrorism Index.
visionofhumanity.org
From 2009 to 2018, the far right has been responsible for 76% of extremist-related fatalities in the U.S.
time.com
Instead of trying to combat this, Trump's administration has not only been repeatedly publicly encouraging them, he has directed funding away from being able to combat them:
Despite President Trump's condemnation of racism and white supremacy, his administration has redirected money and attention from Homeland Security programs targeting domestic terrorism threats from far-right, white nationalist and anti-government groups.
www.latimes.com
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