What were Loughner’s politics?
Do 97% of these “experts” agree?
are we descending into violence. Oh goodness I certainly hope so. Need a good, cleansing fire. The garden hasn’t been weeded in decades
If Vox’s target audience were smart, they’d not be pushing for war. However, that would be asking for too much.
12 experts? More like 12 leftist college professors. The entire article was basically a bunch of anti-Trump liberals calling conservatives racist thugs.
The author attempts to explain what he perceives as a wave of “terror attacks and mass shootings.” He has a rather curious list of such events. It’s conspicuously missing the Orlando night club shooting, in which 50 people were killed and another 44 wounded. His list is also missing the Boston Marathon Bombing, in which 3 people were killed and several hundred injured.
I don’t know that we have a good database of “mass murders.” You’d have to start with a definition. The wikipedia entry says at least 6 people killed, or 4 or 5 people killed and a total of at least 10 people injured, or 2 or 3 people killed and a total of at least 12 people injured.
Looking over the list the author assembled, other incidents on the wikipedia entry, and yet other incidents that I simply recalled from memory, the only thing that jumps out is Muslims.
Other than Muslims, it looks like a random trickle of anti-social, loner/loser types, some of which have been diagnosed as schizophrenic. I mean, you have one or more of Goths, Confederates, Progressive Socialists, Hispanics, just about everything, but not many females.
As to the author’s thesis that more polarization equals more political violence, I’m sorry, but I would like this to be demonstrated. I suspect the only thing that has changed since the 1980s is that we now have a wave of Muslim violence (thankfully not as bad as Europe).
One instance of a Bernie Sanders supporter going over the edge doesn’t make a wave. But, we’ll see where this leads. If the kooks on the left continue to radicalize those on their side, with their tinfoil hat conspiracy theories and gallows humor, we might wind up with a wave of leftard violence in addition to a wave of Muslim violence.
Looking down the list of “experts,” almost everyone works at a university or college. Talk about stacking the deck.
Article is a waste.
And remember the Civil War had more killed than all the wars the US has been in....combined.
So this is potentially pretty bad.
Yes.
And I’m not an expert but I’m not stupid either.
I can see and hear what’s happening in this country.
The violence at Donald Trump’s rallies last year was palpable, and Trump himself encouraged it. On the left, protests at places like UC Berkeley have collapsed into riotous frenzies.James O'Keefe: Clinton Campaign, DNC Coordinated With Organizations To Incite Violence At Trump Events (Project Veritas video)
They must have forgotten about all the leftist violence, riots and more during obama’s eight years.