I presented this to Democrats here on a silver platter in HoHounds thread and no one took it and ran with it,
https://www.cato.org/blog/politicall...-united-states
It's from the Cato Institute, which is nonpartisan but right leaning. Unlike the Biden Department of Justice which did the 2024 study, nobody can argue it has a pro-Democrat bias.
It would indicate that the right is responsible for several times more political deaths than the left. The larger data set, since 1975, makes Islamic terrorists and the right look worse because of 9/11 and Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing. Still, strip those out and still the right is the bigger culprit, by several times.
HOWEVER, how many deaths are we looking at? Taking away 9/11, only 12 a year since 1975. Since 2020, only 14 deaths per year. This is nothing. Like I said in HoHound's thread, your chances of dying from a lightning strike are greater than dying from political violence.
On the other hand, there are around 20,000 homicides in the USA every year, virtually all unrelated to political violence. How many of those are committed by Republicans versus Democrats?
I don't believe there's a direct way to answer the question. However, a series of papers by Marc Meredith and Michael Morse about 10 years ago show that several times more ex-felons registered to vote as Democrats than Republicans. Can this be extrapolated to murderers? Maybe so and maybe not. But if so, then Democrats commit a lot more murders than Republicans.
So there! Some here say the Democrats are the murderers and some say the Republicans are. You're both right!