On CNN today Van Jones actually dared to use facts and statistics in response to Donald Trump’s call for “racial profiling” against Muslims since as it turns out far more mass shootings in America involve white, mostly young Christian men.
“I just think it’s really interesting that we’re talking about racially profiling in the context of mass shootings,” he noted. “The vast majority of the people who are doing the mass shootings in America aren’t Muslims at all.”
Young white men,” CNN host Brooke Baldwin sighed.
Jones continued: “You are seven times more likely to be killed by a right wing extremist — a racist or an anti-government nutjob — seven times more likely than a Muslim.”
“If I came on TV and said let’s start racially profiling white men, let’s start racially profiling young, white men who are loners with bowl haircuts, people would think, ‘Wow, that’s a pretty unfortunate conclusion for you to come to,'” he added. “If a Christian shoots somebody, we don’t say a Christian shot them. But if a Muslim shoots somebody, we say a Muslim shot them. I think that’s starting to muddy the waters.”
Which by the way would include the 19-year-old white man who was just arrested at a Trump event for attempted to grab a gun from a law enforcement office in order to use it on Trump.