Politically motivated violence is more prevalent among left-wing individuals and aggressive rhetoric from the left may exacerbate this dangerous climate.
In Aug. 2012, a left-wing MSNBC afficionado named Floyd Lee Corkins armed himself with a handgun and extra magazines.
He drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council, planning to shoot it up.
ns, who later cited the Southern Poverty Law Center for the proposition that the FRC is an “anti-gay” organization, was also carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, which he hoped to stuff in his dead victims’ mouths.
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In June 2017, a left-wing MSNBC afficionado named James Hodgkinson armed himself with a rifle and handgun.
Murderous political violence in the United States today is not an all-of-the-above phenomenon.
Hodgkinson was a 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign volunteer who, in a Facebook post three weeks before the shooting, wrote: “Trump is a Traitor.
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