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It's mostly right wingers who murder for political reasons. When you know deep down your worldview is a snakepit, that's when you decide to take the law into your own hands like that.
OK so this was Interesting so I dug into it
John Wilkes Booth was part of the Know Nothing Party a left leaning party
Lee Harvey Oswald was a socialist which is left leaning
Both women that shot at Gerald R Ford were part of different left leaning programs
Actually looks like most of the assissinations are done from left leaning individuals. Not that I'm taking sides on that matter just a cursory Google search
Even if thats the case, it implicitly suggests that leftists go after the powerful while rights go after the people. Their peers
What situation are you thinking of when you think of the right killing their peers for political reasons?
The left is educated enough to know specifically who they want to kill. The right just wants everyone that's not them to die
Since when are mass shooters assassinating political leaders?
Well the thread and comment you replied to was about political assassinations, so what do mass shootings have to do with the conversation at all? You're not wrong, it's just irrelevant here.
I think they are pretty well split.
[citation needed]
Considering what these presidents were doing politically when they were assassinated for their politics, this sounds like a mighty convenient narrative for a dogmatically anti-communist state to feed to the populace after the fact.
OK for what one? It's common knowledge about both Lee Harvey Oswald (who went to russia) and John Wilkes Booth. Squeeky fromme (who tried ti shoot Ford) was a member of the Manson cult you can look on Wikipedia for that if you want here is the Wikipedia link for Sara Moore https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore
Interesting choices. I think the only valid one there would be the second attempt on Gerald Ford (Sara Jane Moore), who wanted to spark a revolution.
The first attempt on him was by one of the Mason Family (Lynette Fromme), who were sometimes described as hippies, but were also keen on bringing about a race war.
John Wilkes Booth seems surprising to call left leaning, as he was pro-confederacy and angry about the abolition of slavery.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a Soviet defector, and did indeed call himself a socialist. However there's the whole probable scenario that he wasn't actually the shooter and never went on trial.
To mention other presidential assassinations, there's Charles J. Guiteau, assassin of President James A. Garfield, who was a loyal republican, but felt he was personally wronged by the President (as well as mental illness).
Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President William McKinley would probably support your hypothesis more than the others, as an anarchist.
All in all, not really overwhelmingly left leaning.
I think your confused. The abolition of slavery was a right wing thing.
The want to have a slaves was left wing
No. "Republican" does not equal "Right wing". Maybe in the modern context, but political parties evolve and shift on the left right scale over time. The Republican party was originally established as a less Conservative opposition to the Democrats.
Besides, the policial party pushing for the thing is surely much less important than the thing itself. The act of enslaving a portion of the population, based entirely on racial divisions, is an extremely right wing position.
How is enslaving a race a right wing thing?
Racism isn't inherently a political issue and isn't the whole story of slavery, but is a major factor when talking about enslaving a race. However, its close relationship to other major factors like colonialism, nationalism, supremacism and xenophobia, as well as financial structures allowing such enslavement and ownership, are all found well to the right of the spectrum.
Ironically it's also extremely left wing position.
I'm not digging it back up but I've seen a lot of evidence that is exact opposite to what you're concluding.
I wish you would
I don't have time. The problem is that academics do not want to be seen as making a political statement so you have to find a particular type of source.
I've definitely seen and fact checked lists of terrorist acts aside their committers' political leanings. Most of them are right wingers, in the US at least. That's been true since at least the 80s