@reay @Binder @theintercept "violent extremists on both sides" Over the past decade there has been maybe one act of violence by people on the left a year and all the other violence has been by people on the right. Kirk and Trump were both shot by a right winger. Yes there are violent people on "both sides" but that's like saying vaccines and the disease both cause harm. Its not a false statement, there is microscopic rarity that a vaccine can do some harm, but most of the damage is done by the disease its actively preventing.