Killing for politics


Violent attack: Nancy Pelosi (right) with husband Paul. A right-wing conspiracy theorist is charged with breaking into their San Francisco home and bashing the 82-year-old Paul’s head with a hammer. – AFP

ROUGHLY five million Americans would be willing to kill someone to achieve a political purpose, according to a new University of California, Davis (UC Davis), study.

“These are just eye-popping results,” says Garen Wintemute, who heads the university’s Violence Prevention Research Programme.

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