Four Mass Shootings Have Been Thwarted Since the El Paso Massacre, Authorities Say

In the two weeks since the gun massacre in El Paso, Texas, federal and local authorities have thwarted four additional threats they said could have resulted in mass attacks. All four of the alleged plotters—in Nevada, Connecticut, Florida, and Ohio—were heavily armed young white men. At least three of the four appear to have harbored hateful far-right views, especially toward Jewish, African American, and LGBTQ people.

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On August 3, a deadly mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, (one of two shootings to take place that day) reignited a national conversation around racist violence. The shooting is being handled as a domestic terrorism case due in part to a manifesto the shooter posted, which attacked the Latinx community in ways rhetorically similar to how President Donald Trump has talked about the same community.

The same-day shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, have sparked a major FBI crackdown on shooting threats. On August 22, CNN documented the cases of 27 different people who have been arrested for allegedly making threats to commit mass shootings or to bomb specific locations since the August 3 mass shootings. Of those 27 cases, some are against government agencies or officials; one was made against a women’s reproductive health clinic in Chicago.

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Sabertooth said:

Dayton, Ohio had nothing to do with "racism," nor did Las Vegas. And they were more successful than your thwarted racists.

Can you spell "confirmation bias?"

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On August 9, federal prosecutors charged Conor Climo, a 23-year-old Las Vegas man, for allegedly planning to attack a local synagogue and a bar he believed to be popular with LGBTQ people. Climo reportedly admitted during questioning by the FBI that he belonged to a neo-Nazi group; law enforcement agents seized weapons from his home including bomb-making materials and an unregistered AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.

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