PressTV:  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.  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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