Are we a menaced society? Yes. Are we are a violent society? No.

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11. So if violent national culture, which was built before we arrived, is subject to regulation,

how are we violent when by majority rule of law we try to modify its structural, interpersonal and institutional violence, along with "individuals [who] find it difficult to divest themselves of violent solutions to problems they face."

I'm thinking that we are "in" but not "of" the structural violence we face (through amendments and laws that protect and enforce rights), and therefore are not a violent society.

Are the violent few to define the non-violent many? That is what we need to consider. I say no, because we are government of, by and for the people, the majority of whom are non-violent. We are the many menaced by the few, but they do not define us.

Isn't that fair logic?