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https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/gun-violence-by-state/#states-with-highest-gun-violence
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
Illinois doesn't even rate in the top half of states.
Between 2008 and 2016 115 domestic terror incidents were far-right inspired, 19 were far-left.
Since 9/11 73% of violent extremist incidents that resulted in deaths were caused by right wing radicalism.
From the KKK, to Oklahoma City, to Jacksonville and El Paso, the vast majority of politically/religious motivated gun violence were far-right inspired.
They include islamic attacks as right wing attacks, which is technically correct, but we're not the ones worshipping them.
I wonder how else they've skewed the data.
Where I pulled that statistic out actually kept them separate...
No they don't, when you include Islamic attacks (which are absolutely right wing as they are religious authoritarian extremists) the number jumps to 96%.
Now go ahead and break those incidents down into a few subcategories:
Personal defense
Police
Gang violence
Accidents
Suicides
A raw number is a small piece of a much larger puzzle. Plus yeah, a conservative state with more people carrying will probably have more incidents involving guns. Same thing happens with places with more cars - more collisions.
If your talking about the firearm mortality rate, the top 4 states for firearm mortality are also the top 4 for homicide rate... there are a lot of similarities between the two and a strong correlation.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm