Since 2002, the number of people killed in attacks because of the far-right and because of Islamist radicals is nearly equal.
President Donald Trump pledged Monday to give U.S. law enforcement officials"whatever they need" to combat a recent rise in domestic terrorism perpetrated by white nationalists. But what's needed to fight the type of violent hatred that resulted in 22 deaths this weekend in El Paso, Texas, isn't as easy to procure as the president's blanket statement might suggest.
The number of people killed in attacks because of the far-right and because of Islamist radicals since 2002 is nearly equal—109 to 104—according toThe issue of gun control is currently gripping the national political arena, but six former National Security Council senior directors for counterterrorism say that the U.S. also needs to reconsider the way it spends money on counterterrorism and to divert resources towards acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by white nationalists, and quickly.
"This also means providing a significant infusion of resources to support federal, state, and local programs aimed at preventing extremism and targeted violence of any kind, motivated by any ideology or directed at any American community. We simply cannot wait any longer," continued the letter. "A majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence," said FBI director Chris Wray in late August, before the most recent round of attacks.
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