[toomim]

Nice points!

But as for "causing" violence, they also asked whether "political violence is ever justified", and the difference between left vs. right there was even more — 25% vs 3%.

[wat10000]

Given the right's overall reaction to things like January 6th, I conclude that this number tells us more about what the left vs right thinks qualifies as political violence, not about their support for it.

[scoopdewoop]

The data in the link is clear that the opinions are always partisan based on the very last person shot at... that does track.

[toomim]

Wouldn't you expect the conservatives, then, to be the ones who say that violence is justified?

Yet you're seeing the opposite — after the killing of a conservative, it's the left that says violence is justified.

Furthermore, this trend on the left had been building for a while, which we see in surveys done before his killing:

[1] https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1909391943802703899

[2] https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1836511736213704769