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> One side has leftists setting police cars on fire. The other side has conservatives plotting to kidnap and/or murder mayors and governors. There were also as

• dodobirdlord 6y ago
  The first one is a good example. The second one is about a mentally ill British man whose "assassination attempt" never had any chance of success. Should we count as political violence the plot to kill Barack Obama with a "death ray"? I think there's a distinction to be drawn between political violence and crazy people being crazy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama#Death_ray_plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_B... Interestingly, reading the pages you linked and dredging up the Death Ray link induced me to notice that (1) the previous shooting of a Congressperson was by a right-wing terrorist, and (2) that page about Obama recounts something like 6 very real plots to kill him mixed in among a bunch of variously mentally ill people being delusional. I think it's pretty clear which way the wind blows here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting