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If you guys actually want a real answer:
I'm a right wing guy in a relationship with a right wing woman. We're both extremely happy. We both work in the software industry, we cook & bake together, and we occasionally go shooting (I taught her how to field strip and clean an AR). We also occasionally sew, make quilts, and do other random little projects around the house.
From how some of these other comments are looking, I guess the expectation is that we crawl down into our secret lair and laugh maniacally while thinking of new and creative ways to kill minorities?
~~Edit: downvoted immediately, just as expected. My favorite thing about lemmy is people's infinite intolerance of someone with different opinions from them, even if they're the only one crazy enough to answer the question asked by OP.~~
Edit2: Looks like it was one or two salty gents downvoting early. Nature is healing.
I am the person who made the villain comment. No, we don’t think you actively go around acting like villains from cartoons lol. But while you quietly enjoy your life, you vote for and support policies that cause direct harm to tens of millions of people. You care about the things that impact you, but not about people you don’t relate to. The people you vote for spread hateful ideas that lead supposedly good, Christian conservatives to commit violent crimes because they think the trans person they meet is automatically a pedophile.
Our of curiosity, when's the last time you voted against your own self interests?
A tiny drop in a massive bucket, my friend. Gun violence statistics tell a very different tale. Yes, it happens, but gang violence in extremely left wing cities overshadows any sort of "Christian extremist" violence so enormously that it isn't even funny. Hell, one weekend in Chicago will likely exceed the last decade's worth.
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