> As of 2021, the United States government considers white supremacists to be the top domestic terrorism threat.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Un...

themaninthedark 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Using that list, let's look back at the last ~40 years: 1978-1995 : Unabomber - Not WS 1980-1985 : Jewish Defense League - Not WS 1995 : Oklahoma City Bombing - WS(Possibly Political and not WS but will count as linked) 1996 : Olympic Bombing - WS 2009 : Fort Hood shooting - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2012 : Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting - WS 2013 : Boston Marathon bombing - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2015 : Cartoon Drawing Contest shooting - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2015 : Charleston church shooting - WS 2015 : San Bernardino shooting - Not WS(Radical Islam) 2016 : Orlando nightclub shooting -Not WS(Radical Islam) 2017 : Congressional baseball shooting - Not WS(Political left) 2017 : Charlottesville car attack - WS 2018 : Pittsburgh synagogue shooting - WS 2019 : Escondido mosque fire and Poway synagogue shooting - WS 2019 : El Paso Walmart shooting - WS 2025 : New Orleans truck attack - Not WS

I would note; I know of at least one missing item, the attack on protesters in Denver. I also added back in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting which was linked to the page but also missing in the list.

Also possibly missing: DC Sniper attacks

However for sake of argument, I will only look at data prior to 2021:

8/16 attacks on that list are linked to White Supremacists(Counting OKC) ~50%

In the last 15 years, again about 50% are linked to White Supremacists and ~41% linked to Radical Islam.

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t0lo 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

As an outside observer- what about as of 2025?

	▲	thephyber 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		First of all, the current calendar year never gets stats. It usually takes the FBI 1-2 years to release data because it’s mostly collected by 10,000s of local police agencies, then collated and normalized by the FBI. Even then, there were problems with the data because some police departments lied when filling out the forms (notably one department in Louisiana). But I also heard that the FBI stopped collecting it as part of the DOGE / DEI policy changes (because some of the fields / dimensions of analysis are racial). That said, the next challenge is to agree on what constitutes the left-right political spectrum in the US. I would argue it’s too vague to exist. It’s important to realize when a data point is describing gun violence or any source of violence, and whether it is violence against civilians or violence against the government as well.
	▲	tdeck 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Once they seize state power they can use that, so it's not considered terrorism.