Posted on 09/19/2025 10:05:17 AM PDT by DallasBiff
A recent Cato Institute study published last Thursday following the murder of Charlie Kirk claims that from 1975 through September 2025, "right-wing terrorists" accounted for 391 murders (11% of total) while "left-wing terrorists" killed 65 people (2% of total) in politically motivated attacks in the United States.
In multiple comments in response to Kirk's killing, U.S. President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left," arguing their rhetoric was “directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today.” He further claimed right-wing violence stemmed from people who “don’t want to see crime.”
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They didn’t count any of the BLM RIOT DEATHS and DESTRUCTION!!! LIARS!
What the hell happened to CATO?
I’ll compare it to the NRA - it seems that once an organization makes Washington DC the center of its world, its guaranteed to be corrupted and lose its focus.
Let me guess. Timothy McVeigh, right?
McVeigh wasn’t on the “right.”
I bet you dollars to donuts they counted all of Timothy McVeys victims. Which is why they counted victims instead of the number of murders. That’s 168 of that total for sure by just one man.
the better way of counting is the number of murderers, not the number of victims.
They count muzzies as right wing.
Lying sacks of shit! Wonder if these creeps access government grants, if so cut them off for their lies.
Including the deer season I would think?
What DID McVeigh believe in?
I would count the FBI and CIA as leftists.
I am surprised they did not try to sneak in 911 as having been perpetuated by right-wing religious fundamentalists
Who brought forth no cash bail that allowed violent criminals back on the street? Leftists
Who financed the election campaigns of lunatic DAs, AGs that refuse to prosecute violent criminals? Leftists.
Who opened the border for 4 years resulting in countless acts of violence against the USA? Biden and leftists.
We are talking about thousands if not tens of thousands of acts of violence because of leftists
Let me guess. They count Tim McVeigh as “right wing”.
Killing innocent men, women and children, apparently.
I could make any claim I wanted in a poll if I wanted to skew the numbers like Cato obviously has in this phony poll.
The Koch brothers, who are no supporters of Trump, founded the Cato Institute and have provided tens of millions in support to it over the years.
What DID McVeigh believe in?
“Science is my God.”
Are you serious???
McVeigh was an atheist racist and steeped in neonazi and white separatist thinking. People have a hard time with it, but nazism is national socialism... hard left.
His “Bible” was the “Turner Diaries” a book about a cataclysmic race war in America where all non-whites and Jews were exterminated.
Nothing right wing about McVeigh. And most of all he was mad that he didn’t make it through Special Forces selection.
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