# Aggressively violent imagery - equal among both parties?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aggressively-violent-imagery-equal-among-both-parties/567228 "2011-01-11T16:29:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aggressively-violent-imagery-equal-among-both-parties/567228/10 "2011-01-11T17:27:28Z")

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> [@Malthus](#):
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> Depends on how one characterizes it. To my mind “assassination is a political act” makes sense as a description where the assassin has a recognizable political goal.
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> In this case, “mass murder by a deranged person” may be the better description in light of the evidence.

I must conditionally agree here. In order to continue being the devil’s advocate, does anyone have figures on the number of shootings done in the US so far this month? Anyone have any figures of the number of multiple-victim incidents? And any real reason to categorize this one incident as being quantitatively different than any other shooting so far this year?

I understand the politically sensitive folks see partisan politics (and their personal political bogeymen) in every situation, but as an apolitical mugwump I see another mentally unstable person shooting at a public gathering.

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