Ah. Okay, I am talking about how native English speakers read the phrase. I do not think your definition is good enough. If I tell someone "there was violence

Ah. Okay, I am talking about how native English speakers read the phrase. I do not think your definition is good enough. If I tell someone "there was violence downtown" to me it carries extremely strong tones of physical injury. If I tell someone "there are riots downtown" to me it carries extremely strong tones of chaotic potential for violence, but not violence in and of itself. I appreciate how you are attempting to use linguistic arguments for your case, which is laudable, but I am talking about how I think it would be read by people without a deeply technical reading of the language.