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> A cursory glance at the various Wikipedia lists of politicians assassinated in either country rebuts your last point.

Huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Congress...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_MPs_killed_in_...

UK 3 in last 30 years, US 2. For a US population of 40x larger, and easier access to guns.

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In your reckoning, you ignore the difference in access to politicians. UK MPs have weekly 'surgeries' where any constituent discuss issues one on one. It's somewhat harder to meet a representative one on one in the States.

The UK gets it right. Half again as many representatives as the US, while having a fifth of the population. So each MP has about 100K citizens they represent, versus each representative in the US that has more like 750K.

Quite. Jo Cox, David Amess and Andrew Pennington (a local councillor defending MP Nigel Jones) were all murdered at surgeries. Stephen Timms also survived an attempted murder by stabbing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_America...

Nine in the last thirty years, not including the ambassador killed overseas.

I compared Parliament against Congress as that seemed comparing apples-to-apples.

But nine is still less than the UK, adjusting for population! And that's before access to guns!

> In the past few years we've had politicians on both sides killed in politically motivated attacks. I think that's a worse tally than the US as well. (emphasis added)

Worse per capita, for an apples-to-apples group of high-profile politicians.

That's got to be a cause for alarm? In a society with less access to weapons?

> 40x larger

What.

Sorry thinking of land mass - population of 5x larger.

But the absolute number is larger, even ignoring the population size, so not sure what the person I was replying to means.

Looking from the outside, I think US political discourse IS far more hostile.

Britain won't accept things like Politicians being harassed, or one politician calling for other politicians to be harassed (and that's before we even get to anything Trump related).

And the amount of references I see to "civil war" when wandering across anything relating to US politics (i.e. not zero) is disturbing.

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