The real danger of playing politics with violence, like this thread is doing, and like republicans and democrats alike all (almost all anyways) do, is that you're empowering the violent to make an impact on the debate.
By creating a situation where citation of violence creates political ammunition to be used against your opponents we're providing additional incentive to those who are disposed to be violent by saying "If you're violent your actions will be noticed and they will have an impact.". It doesn't matter if the impact might hurt their cause, they just want the attention whether it's positive or negative.
The only good that can come of such things is to have a united front of "We don't support violence for any reason.". People need to learn to avoid the temptation of taking the easy way out and blaming violence on those of an opposing view simply because it is useful to your own views to do so.
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