Brace yourselves: Santorum is leading a wave of stochastic terrorism. Get ready for shootings...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

57. "killed many more people"

You're just playing a numbers game. That's like saying the man who only killed his wife to escape a messy divorce is better than the man who is a sexual serial killer. Neither should ever be allowed to see the light of day ever again.

But even then your contention fails on its own merits as a seach of "animal rights activist attack" reveals -- to me -- a startling number of incidences involving acid, arson, bombings and the sort; and no, these are not the metaphorical, rhetorical sorts of attacks, these are actual violent assaults.

Both anti-choicers and so-called animal rights activists who engage in acts of violence should be stuffed into deep, dark holes where they can never again torment anyone. Ditto any others, regardless of the "cause" any others might pretend to serve. However, the violent and the violent alone bear the full responsibility for their crimes. Disagreement, even profound and sometimes emotional disagreement, is not incitement to violence.

This is the same nonsense as RWers claiming all genuine efforts to alleviate poverty and pointing-out the emotionally wrenching stories of the effects of poverty are trying to whip-up the pro-communist fervor that resulted in 100 million murders in hitory's worst tyrannies. That's not a debate about poverty or society's obligation to its own; it's nothing more than a cynical effort to silence/shame people who advocate for social justice.