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There has not been a single year that had even 10,000 total hate crime offenses, much less involving a gun, much less in an average year.
Total hate crime offenses per year, according to the FBI:
2004: 9,035
2005: 8,380
2006: 9,080
2007: 9,006
2008: 9,168
2009: 7,789
2010: 7,699
2011: 7,254
2012: 6,718
2013: 6,933
2014: 6,418
2015: 6,885
2016: 7,227
2017: 8,437
2018: 8,496
2019: 8,302
According to their source, only 5% of violent hate crime victimizations involved a firearm. Violent crimes make up the majority of hate crimes according to that report, so that would be roughly 300-400 hate crimes involving a gun each year.
The report offers precisely NO support whatsoever for the numbers given in that tweet. Both that report and the FBI statistics clearly refute those numbers. Twitter users live in a grimdark fantasy world.