FACT CHECK: Is Left-Wing Violence Rising?
This week's shooting at a Republican baseball practice alarmed those who fear the left is becoming more radicalized.
Some conservatives have seized on Wednesday's shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise and three others as the latest example of what they see as rising political violence from the left. Fox News' Sean Hannity accused Democrats of "dehumanizing" Republicans, and the right-leaning Washington Times ran an editorial by a Tea Party activist that called leftist protests "the first skirmishes of the second American civil war."
But those who track extremism say that while there are a few far-left groups that raise red flags, their numbers remain small.
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