Thanks for the civil response. I can see how you came to that conclusion and to be clear I think violence can become necessary in order to defend a free and fair society but I don't believe that it should be common or expected by default.

Democracy has its problems and my critiques of it come from an egalitarian "left" perspective rather than the might-oriented perspective others espouse here.

The only point I meant to make is that American democracy isn't fair and even its ideal state leaves some people at the margins. In that system violence will always have a place.