Reply #139: I list a number of violent mass murders by conservatives in recent years. [View All]

In each case, the murderer is labeled by the press as a crazy exception: Loughner in Tucson, McVeigh which you name, the fellow who killed all the people in the Unitarian church in Nashville. And there are quite a few others. Wasn't there a Rudolph who was systematically assassinating abortion doctors and was believed to have been protected by a network of like-minded people?

We still have not resolved beyond reasonable doubt the identity of the person who sent the anthrax letters in the wake of 9/11. But there is no indication that it was a Muslim or a liberal. That's for sure.

Conservatives simply forget all the violence that has arisen from their movement.

Liberals are still walking in the footsteps of Martin Luther King and Ghandi. I personally believe that violence is utterly incompatible with liberal thought -- which is "liberal," i.e., never overly sure that its right, always open to questioning and not a dogmatic set of ideas.

How many pacifist conservatives do you know? Not all liberals are pacifists, but there are far more pacifist liberals than pacifist conservatives.