One-third of Americans think political violence is justifiable
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Sometimes violence is necessary, but it should be the last resort. As Larry Correia (an SF/fantasy author and blogger) wrote six years ago (https://monsterhunternation.com/2018/11/19/the-2nd-amendment...): "A friend of mine who is a political activist said something interesting the other day, and that was for most people on the left political violence is a knob, and they can turn the heat up and down, with things like protests, and riots, all the way up to destruction of property, and sometimes murder… But for the vast majority of folks on the right, it’s an off and on switch."
I'd argue that the idea of violence being a knob isn't limited to the left, but strongly agree that it is in reality an off-on switch that one should think very hard about before flipping.
But insofar as some political groups believe in some rights as absolute, then the primary policy knob available will be the punishments which occur for the abuse of such rights, which must be a line drawn far away from any ambiguity. So you should be able to own as many guns as you want up to the point of murder, after which we punish you very hard. Things like background checks, licensing, and fees are than seen as morally hazardous slippery slopes. Legal leniency during sentencing will be seen as corruption and abetting crime.
> Usually if they’re talking about soldiers, it’s about how they’re evil baby killers, or time bombs of PTSD rage, or poor deluded fools who joined the military because they couldn’t get a real job…. And cops, it’s about how they’re just a bunch of trigger happy racists just itching for an excuse to execute everybody who looks different than they do.
Why is he upset at this description when he's just finished claming that if you pass a law on gun control these very people will start murdering people en masse?
Republicans tell pollsters that violence is legitimate and then go sit inside their houses watching Fox News and whining on Facebook.
Democrats tell pollsters that violence is illegitimate and then go out into the streets to protest, which then regularly includes violence against people trying to get past road blockages, looting of businesses, damage to cars and buildings in the area, etc.
Somehow the multiple months of widespread violence across America under the banners of "Antifa" or BLM or "Occupy X" or whatever leftwing banner doesn't count as violence, but some law-abiding citizen ranting on social media under a rightwing philosophy is treated as if they're a huge threat. It's the most mindboggling double-standard gaslighting.
Jonah Goldberg gave us "If there ever has been a moment when reasonable men's hands itch for the pitchfork, this must surely be it."
In other words likely no, not every man necessarily feels that. People are different.