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    George Skelton: 'Eye-popping' new survey on Americans' acceptance of political violence should be a wake-up call to leaders

    by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Nov 04, 2022 3 minutes
    A San Francisco police officer stands guard in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Oct. 28, 2022, in San Francisco. Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, was violently attacked in their home by an intruder. One arrest has been made.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Roughly 5 million Americans would be willing to kill someone to achieve a political purpose, according to a new UC Davis study.

    "These are just eye-popping results," says Garen Wintemute, who heads the university's Violence Prevention Research Program.

    "I have never seen [survey results] like this. We decided we had to get this paper out right away."

    And to think, most of us grew up proudly believing that one great thing about America was that we settled our political disputes at the ballot box — not with bombs or guns or

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