The Reason DHS Plan To Fight ‘Right-Wing’ Violence Doesn’t Focus On Guns

By Tom Knighton

The Department of Homeland Security has had to take a serious look at so-called right-wing violence lately. While many on the right take issue with some acts being labeled “right-wing,” the truth of the matter is that the DHS has to take a look at the issue. After all, some groups considered right-wing are violent nutjobs, even if most on the right want nothing to do with them. The left has more than their fair share of violent nutjobs as well, to be honest, but that doesn’t make the right immune to it.

However, unsurprisingly, some on the left are upset that the plan doesn’t call for gun control.

On Friday, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan announced a new “Strategy for Combating Terrorism and Targeted Violence” that acknowledges that Americans “face a growing threat from domestic actors inspired by violent extremist ideologies, as well as attacks from those are not ideologically driven” and that “[r]acially- and ethnically-motivated violent extremism, in particular, violent white supremacism, is one of the most prevalent and abhorrent of these anti-American ideologies. There is no moral ambiguity on this issue.”

It documents several of these right-wing attackers who have used guns to carry out their …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms