Arthur isn't an anomaly.
He is among more than 480 people with a military background accused of ideologically driven extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023,
including the more than 230 arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.
At the same time, while the pace at which the overall population has been radicalizing increased in recent years,
people with military backgrounds have been radicalizing at a faster rate.
Their extremist plots were also more likely to involve weapons training or firearms than plots that didn't include someone with a military background,
according to an Associated Press analysis of domestic terrorism data obtained exclusively by the AP.
This held true whether or not the plots were executed.
While the number of people involved remains small, the participation of active military and veterans gave extremist plots more potential for mass injury or death,
according to data collected and analyzed by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland.
START researchers found that more than 80% of extremists with military backgrounds identified with far-right, anti-government or white supremacist ideologies, with the rest split among far-left, jihadist or other motivations.
https://abc11.com/post/chris-arthur-north-carolina-man-linked-growing-concerns-extremism-among-us-military-veterans/15439366/
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2024-10-19 17:30:13
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