This link (an anti-gun violence website) includes very specific, very detailed, case-by-case examples of "rhetorical ratcheted-upness" by politicians and political talking heads and - the assuming - resulting violence.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions, obviously.
On Anders Breivik, The American Tea Party, Norway and "Sharia Creep"
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This link (an anti-gun violence website) includes very specific, very detailed, case-by-case examples of "rhetorical ratcheted-upness" by politicians and political talking heads and - the assuming - resulting violence.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions, obviously.
http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline