The Rhetoric of Violence

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Muslims, undocumented workers, homosexuals, liberals, feminists, intellectuals and African-Americans will increasingly suffer the wrath of vigilante violence as the nation becomes more restive.
61% : Guns, for this reason, are easily available to white people while gun ownership is largely criminalized for blacks.
49% : People of color, along with those who espouse the liberal social values of the college-educated elites, including gun control, are seen by the vigilantes as contaminants to society that must be removed to restore the nation to health.
45% : The United States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world -- an average of 90 per 100 people.
43% : The vigilantes, often working with the approval and sometimes with the collusion of state law enforcement agencies, are rarely held accountable.
41% : It was similar truths that, having finally penetrated the militaries, doomed Louis XVI, the Shah of Iran and the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
37% : They murder anyone who defies the structures of capitalism, even if the victims are unarmed.

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