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Saying “Gun violence” instead of “Violence” is dog whistling that you care more about disarming people than saving lives.

I'm saying gun violence because that's the topic. Getting upset over this wording is like getting upset somebody calls a ride on a plane "air travel" instead of "travel". That's the category of the subject being discussed.

That aside, yes, most political violence world wide is right wing violence. This is mainly due to Islamic terrorism, which is right wing. Note that is not American right wing.

Even if you're just limiting to domestic terrorism, right wing terrorism is the majority of said terrorism.

Define shootings

I thought it was pretty clear that I was talking about politically motivated attacks when I was talking about the straight white shooters thing. Gang violence isn't really politically motivated.

And your numbers are way off:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N363273/

Guess what? They have a right wing bias. They generally don’t report shootings because there’s no angle. Left wing sites do report on them because they want to push an anti-gun narrative, that and ratings.

So when left wing sources push an angle, it's to reduce deaths. When right wing sources push an angle, it's to demonize minorities who are already at risk for violence.

And you think the chosen angle for this particular case makes you look good?

Don’t think I didn’t notice just how light on details that AP is. They talk a bunch about the victims and Joel osteen, but they barely give you her name.

Glorifying shooters only makes copy cats more likely. The AP is being responsible.