Deadly shootings like the one in Buffalo could be prevented. Here's how: CNN Peter Bergen

[Stuart G]

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/15/opinions/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-terrorism-bergen/index.html

Opinion by Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst

Updated 7:00 PM ET, Sun May 15, 2022
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(CNN)The story is all-too familiar: A man allegedly armed with grievance and a gun kills fellow citizens who are strangers to him, singling them out only because of their race or creed.

It's a very American tale of domestic terrorism which appears to have struck once again on Saturday, this time in the city of Buffalo, New York. And it is playing out with increasing frequency in the United States.
In June 2015, a white nationalist killed nine people attending a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The shooter was hoping to foment a race war.

In June 2015, a white nationalist killed nine people attending a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The shooter was hoping to foment a race war.

In October 2018, during a shooting at a synagogue near Pittsburgh, an anti-Semite killed 11 people. The perpetrator blamed Jews for a migrant caravan that was then moving through Mexico.

Just as school shooters learn from other school shootings, terrorists learn from -- and are inspired by -- other terrorists. A manifesto allegedly published online by the Buffalo attacker named and celebrated several other racist terrorists.

And like the White supremacists accused in multiple recent mass shootings, the alleged attacker in Buffalo was obsessed with the idea that Whites are being "replaced" by other ethnic groups.

This Great Replacement theory animates many White nationalists, like those who attended a racist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, where they chanted, "Jews will not replace us!"

In the long shadow of the 9/11 attacks, Americans tended to think of terrorism as emanating from jihadists, but today, far-right terrorists are the leading cause of lethal terrorist attacks in the United States. If we include the 10 people killed in the Buffalo attack, right-wing extremists have killed a total 122 people in the United States since the 9/11 attacks, while 107 people have been killed by jihadist terrorists, according to data compiled by New America, a research institution.

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............Thank You for reading this far...Stuart G.......................

[Hoyt]

1. Definitely want efforts that keep them from white wingers. But

But gunz are killing people in homes, schools, streets, grocery store parking lots, entertainment areas, etc.

I’ll settle for concentrating on white wingers, but that won’t be enough. Obviously, it’s more than gunz— like poverty, education, mental health, etc. But gunz are something we can minimize on streets if we just do it.

But we won’t do a thing.

[Stuart G]

2. Thank You for Your Comment...and the words...."..if we just do it"

But, I am afraid you are correct ...in saying ..."...we won't do a thing.....You don't know this..........but

after President Kennedy's Assassination in 1963, gun laws were passed. Then, much later those that were passed........
were ....reversed. You may not remember, but I remember the horror of President Kennedy's Assination in 1963.
Dr King's Assassination later (April 4, 1968), and John Lennon's killing even later ( December 8, 1980)

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,. Without very strict laws, this won't stop. And it will ...."never stop" ....................
.................... (Yes, I am old enough to remember all those assignations

[usonian]

3. I remember those, and church bombings ...

Only way I can imagine is for the government to buy up all the ammo, cornering the market and driving the price up.
Sure, that will work like taxing cigarettes ... weren't they 25 cents a pack and $3 a carton?
Make guns operable only by cell phones? Cars are getting that way.
The floor is open.

[niyad]

4. KNR and bookmarking. For later.

[llashram]

5. I just say

metaphorically of course...keep your powder dry...

[The Wizard]

6. What percent of shooters

are Pox News watching, right wing , Republican losers and crackpots?