Respectfully, I may disagree with your premise. If by "like" you mean "enjoy" rather than "appreciate" and if by "violence" you mean "unnecessary acts of violence perpetrated on one person by another", then, yes we agree.SewTexas wrote:they also need to understand that we don't like "gun violence". Let's face it, we don't like violence, no one does.
I have another perspective. Violence is a tool, just as a gun is a tool. Violence is not evil in and of itself just as a gun is not evil in and of itself.
George Orwell, referring to pacifism, wrote "Those who “abjure” violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf." I have been one of the "uniforms that guard you while you sleep" that Rudyard Kipling describes in "Tommy." I appreciate the disciplined, controlled violence of our military and police. (http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/07/rough-men/)
There is a beauty in the violence of nature; distant lightning, an erupting volcano, white water rapids. I appreciate these from a distance.
I appreciate the beauty of the controlled violence of a trained horse. I appreciate the directed violence of chemical explosives that help construct dams and the channeled violence of rushing water that powers electric generators.
We, as a nation, prefer the structured violence of football to the more sedate action of soccer. Violent movies are often the most profitable.
Controlled, disciplined violence is most often the best response when innocents are attacked. While we do live in a violent world, we should, as much as it depends on us, strive to be at peace with all. Violence may not be the first response, but it must remain part of the tool-set. At least some of us must be prepared to respond violently, when appropriate, knowing we will be mocked for being so prepared and possibly even for acting.