Its a pretty pointless way to quantify terrorism. The difference between an attack that kills 2 people and an attack that kills 20 is the doors of a Minneapolis church being locked. The actions and intent were identical, the outcomes were arbitrary. Include 9/11 in historical data and everything else is noise.
For every terrorist attack that kills 10+ people there were probably 5 more than killed 1-3 people, and another 10 failed attacks that only killed 0-1 people including attacker
What we see in the past 5 years is an absolute explosion in the number of attempted terrorist attacks from the left-wing, but only a small number of right-wing and islamist attacks, which were disproportionately deadly.
When you expand the list to include all attempted attacks in that 5 year span, you get;
(killed/injured - location/date)
Right-wing:
10/3 - Buffalo, may 22 (mass shooting)
0/1 - San fran, oct 22 (paul pelosi attack)
8/7 - Allen TX, may 23 (mass shooting)
3/0 - Jacksonville FL, aug 23 (mass shooting)
2/2 - Minneapolis MN, jun 25 (hortman assassination)
Islamist:
1/1 - DC, apr 21 (attack on police)
1/0 - Plano TX, aug 21 (attack on police)
0/0 - Coreyville TX, jan 22 (synagogue attack)
0/1 - Henderson NV, mar 22 (stab)
0/1 - Chicago, oct 24 (shot a jew)
14/57 - New Orleans, jan 25 (ramming & shooting)
1/14 - Boulder CO, jun 25 (flamethrower/molotov anti-jew)
Left-wing:
0/29 - Brooklyn, apr 22 (subway shooting)
0/2 - Ahmerst NY, jun 22 (arson)
0/0 - Chevy Chase MA, jun 22 (kavanaugh assassin)
0/1 - Odessa MI, sep 22 (pro-life activist shot)
0/1 - Atlanta GA, jan 23 (attack on police)
6/2 - Nashville TN, mar 23 (trans shooting christian kids)
0/2 - Houston TX , feb 24 (lakewood church)
1/4 - Butler PA, jul 24 (trump assassination)
0/1 - Palm Beach F, sep 24 (trump assassination #2)
1/0 - NYC, dec 24 (thompson assassination)
1/0 - Coventry VT, jan 25 (zizian plot)
0/4 - Palm Springs CA, may 25 (antinatalist suicide bomber)
0/1 - Alvarado TX, jul 25 (antifa ambush on ICE with 11 gunmen)
0/3 - McAllen TX, jul 25 (shooting of border patrol)
2/21 - Minneapolis MN, aug 25 (trans shooting christian kids)
1/0 - Orem UT, sep 25 (kirk assassination)
Notably, this list does NOT include the massive number of riots and lower level violence like firebombing political offices or other smaller arson attacks, or other more minor political violence like pro-life activists getting beaten. Also didn't count some aborted attacks, like trump assassin #3 who killed his parents
That would pad the numbers with an almost infinite number of incidents from the riots. But just looking at incidents with deadly force and people getting burned instead of property, you can see how the count is skewed.
There have been 3x as many left-wing attacks as right-wing and even islamists are getting eclipsed. But a handful of right-wing and islamist gunmen have killed numerous people in one attack, whereas every left-wing attack has only killed 0-2 people save nashville (discrepancy of the two posts- accidentally included dead gunmen in count in above post, not in this one)
*fixed, only change I had thompson as 0/1 when its supposed to be 1/0
I am not going to verifiy 20+ claims, but the one I know a littel about is certainly questionable:
1/4 - Butler PA, jul 24 (trump assassination)Thomas Crooks was a registered republican who donated 15$ to a progressive cause once. Claiming that is left wing terrorism is.. far fetched.
So if the one case I do know about is questionable at best I expect the rest to be on the same level of truthfullness.
Also jan 6th is missing somehow, which is .. funny?
This post was edited by SkySwallower on Sep 15 2025 06:18am