 well we can go back as far as you like for the rich history of political violence in america it's very american actually gabe has written very well about this i commend you to gabe's blog wake up to politics because he's written very eloquently about the history you can go back to teddy roosevelt i think this weekend at the rnc you're going to hear references to teddy roosevelt who was shot in the chest at a campaign rally during his own campaign in 1912 and