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But only one side's radicals keeps going on shooting sprees.


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You found one. Now find a few hundred more and you'll have an actual counterpoint.

Left wing violence in the US is an anomaly. Right wing violence is normalized.


Counterpoint to what? You claimed one political side does the shootings, I just verified if you are aware which side. If you have shown hundreds of right wing political activists shooting the Democrat politicians then your request might have made some sense. Other than OK bombing I've not heard of right wing political terror, all famous terrorists are leftists.

PS. Well, remembered another one, Ted "UNA Bomber" Kaczynski. That's two (if we count McVeigh right wing from being religious and pro-gun) against entire organizations and individuals on the left. From Angela Davis to the dude caught couple of weeks ago while trying to assassinate a Justice, from the M19CO to the Weather Underground.


An incomplete list of still more than two:

April 19, 1995 - Oklahoma City Bombing

July 27, 1996 - Olympic Centennial Park Bombing

August 10, 1999 - Los Angeles Jewish Community Center Shooting

April 28, 2000 - Pittsburgh Shootings

September, 2001 - Dallas shootings

November 1, 2003 - LA Airport Shooting

July 27, 2008 - Knoxville Church Shooting

May 31, 2009 - murder of George Tiller

June 10, 2009 - US Holocaust Memorial Museum Shooting

May 20, 2010 - West Memphis Police Shootings

January 8, 2011 - Tuscon Shooting

January 17, 2011 - Spokane Bombing Attempt

August 5, 2012 - Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting

November 1 2013 - LA International Airport Shooting

April 13 2014 - Overland Park Jewish Community Center Shooting

June 8, 2014 - Las Vegas Shootings

June 17, 2015 - Charleston Church Shooting

November 27, 2015 - Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting

June 29, 2016 - Mineappolis Shooting

July 22, 2016 - Comet Ping Pong Shooting

May 26, 2017 - Portland Train Attack

August 5, 2017 - Bloomington Mosque Bombing

August 12, 2017 - Charlottesville Attack

December 7, 2017 - Aztec High School Shooting

October 22 - November 1, 2018 - US Mail Bombing Attempts

October 24, 2018 - Jeffersontown Shooting

October 27, 2018 - Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

March,April 2019 - Louisiana Black Church Fires

April 27, 2019 - Poway Synagogue Shooting (inspired by Christchurch)

June 17, 2019 - Dallas Courthouse Shooting

August 3, 2019 - El Paso Shooting

January 6, 2021 - US Capitol Riot

May 14 2022 - Buffalo Shooting

Also, excerpted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

    A 2017 report by The Nation Institute and the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed a list of the terrorist incidents which occurred in the US between 2008 and 2016.[0] It found:[1] 115 Far right inspired terrorist incidents. 35% of these incidents were foiled (this number means that no terrorist attacks occurred) and 29% of them resulted in fatalities. These incidents caused 79 deaths.
    
   (...) 19 Far left inspired terrorist incidents. 20% of these terrorist incidents were foiled (this number means that no terrorist attacks occurred) and 10% of them resulted in fatalities. Two of these incidents were described as "plausibly" attributed to a perpetrator with left-wing sympathies and caused 7 deaths. These are not included in the official government database.[2]

    [0] http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/domestic-terrorism-white-supremacists-islamist-extremists_us_594c46e4e4b0da2c731a84df
    
    [1] http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/investigation/2017/06/22/home-hate/
    
    [2] https://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683984.pdf


I am sorry, even Wikipedia does not put at least half of these as right-wing radicals. "Charlottesville Attack" you mean which one, there had been a lot of violence between left and right thugs, do you mean the guy who got spooked and drove a car through a crowd blocking the roadway? And US Capitol Riot, really? Violent Parading? That's right wing violence? JFYI, leftists "paraded" there countless times, most notably during Kavanaugh confirmation. And they actually bombed Senate in 1983.


...also the Highland Park shooter, what a surprise to literally no one.


The capital riot caused deaths, “leftist parades” there did not




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