Lax US gun laws let white supremacist hate crimes threaten everyone

Evidence

Because of how America’s culture, its laws, and its regulations regarding weapons are oriented, there is reason to believe that these sorts of crimes of mistaken identity will have the potential to threaten us all. Americans who wish to commit white supremacist hate crimes have the motive, yes, but they also have the means and the opportunity … — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 102

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 102
• XREF: connects to: White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480; White supremacist killers are prosecuted as hate criminals rather than charged as terrorists — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 226; Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221

Related

• White supremacist killers are prosecuted as hate criminals rather than charged as terrorists (similarity 0.85)
• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. (similarity 0.84)
• White supremacist murders in the US more than doubled in 2017 (similarity 0.82)
• The hate driving white-supremacist terrorism is not personal but abstract. (similarity 0.82)
• White supremacist attacks against any minority serve as roundabout strikes at Muslims (similarity 0.82)
• Nearly eight in ten US domestic terror attacks in 2018 were white supremacy motivated. (similarity 0.81)
• White supremacist violence is analyzed without racial profiling theories. (similarity 0.81)
• White supremacist violence goes unlabeled as terrorism due to actors’ racial identity (similarity 0.81)
• Counterterrorism targets Muslims while downplaying surging White supremacist violence (similarity 0.81)
• Muslims are uniquely cast as counterterrorism soldiers while white Americans never are (similarity 0.80)
• Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action (similarity 0.80)
• White supremacist terror was overlooked as a global threat because of perpetrators’ racial identity (similarity 0.79)
• Preemptive prosecution is applied to Muslims but not to armed white militias (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• White supremacist violence kills nearly as many Americans as Muslim terrorism. #corroborates (0.60) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 480
• White supremacist killers are prosecuted as hate criminals rather than charged as terrorists #expands (0.60) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 226
• Elite equivocation on white supremacy enables violent right-wing action #contradicts (0.40) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 221