I read a statistic that 72% of Americans think violence is never justified, with only 11% saying violence is sometimes be justified. The rest couldn’t be bothered to reconcile with the question. It had originally perhaps been the threat that Americans could—by their own clearly-defined right in the Declaration of Independence—overthrow any form of government that wasn’t working for them that made the government work for its people. It is the nation’s founding principle. That to secu...
