You're saying he shot someone. That was alleged, and he was never arrested or charged. Like I said, some leftists are believers in armed self defense. I am not. But the fact of the matter is we will never know the full details of that case. I condemn bringing weapons to protests as fully as I condemn equating the role of violence on the left and the right in America right now.

I loathe this online obsession with painting an amorphous group of "leftists" with the largest, most inaccurate brush known to man.

Does it also apply for you to terrorists that commit suicide attacks? By definition they will never be arrested nor charged. Would you say that "we will never know" if they did kill people?

We've banned this account for using HN for political/ideological battle. That's not what this site is for.

Please don't create accounts to break the site rules with; it eventually gets your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is a red herring and a non-sequitur.

Vice interviewed the person who killed the Trump supporter in cold blood. Yes, there was no official case against the person. But the police knew who the murderer was. This is why a shootout occurred and no other individual is being charged or sought after AFAIK.

> the police knew who the murderer was.

This is not how the justice system works in America, just so you know. The system you describe is horrifying.