 You look back at that whole string, going all the way back to the 1800s, is that the motive of the person committing the violence is never relevant. Very true. The act of violence itself ends politics, turns it over into crime, and makes the views and the motivations of the shooter irrelevant. Everybody in politics, no matter where you are ideologically, must unite around the idea that violence is unacceptable. And it's unacceptable both