'White supremacists behind over 80% extremism-related US murders in 2022'

Mass shootings in the United States accounted for most extremism-related deaths in the country last year, according to a report, with white supremacists responsible for more than 80 percent of murders.

In a report released on Wednesday, a New York-based group labeled 25 murders in 2022 as "extremist-related," with 18 of those "committed in whole or part for ideological motives."

“All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds,” the report stated, adding that Americans are living in an "age of extremist mass killings".

“White supremacists commit the greatest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years, but in 2022 the percentage was unusually high: 21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists.”

Two mass shootings - one in May in Buffalo, New York, wherein a white supremacist fatally shot 10 Black people, and another in November in Colorado Springs wherein five people were killed at a nightclub - accounted for most of the extremist-related murders of 2022, the report noted.

It further stated that the group has "identified 62 extremist-connected mass killing incidents since 1970, with 46 of them being ideologically motivated", adding that "more than half (26, or 57 percent) of the ideological mass killings have occurred within the past 12 years".

“Of particular concern in recent years are shootings inspired by the white supremacist “accelerationist” propaganda urging such attacks," the report added.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, a total of 647 mass shootings were recorded in 2022, killing 44,287 people.

The US is the only country with more civilian guns than the population – 120 guns for every one hundred Americans – as per the Small Arms Survey (SAS), according to a Swiss research project.

In a country of 331.9 million people, there are 393 million firearms.

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According to a study by the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, mass shootings in the US account for 73 percent of all incidents and 62 percent of all fatalities in developed countries, more likely involving “foreign-born perpetrators, ideological motives, fame-seeking motives, schools, open spaces, and handguns”.

Despite President Joe Biden raising concerns about the alarming rise in white supremacy in the country, observers say his administration has failed to curb the surge in white supremacist crimes and color-based discrimination.

A 2020 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) said white supremacist hate groups in the US increased by 55 percent during the tenure of Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, who is known for institutionalizing white supremacy in the US.

The report said since the turn of the millennium, American racists "have fretted over what they fear will be the loss of their place of dominance in society”.

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