Political violence goes back as far as there have been, well, people. One can easily imagine an angry Stone Age man shouting at his clan chief, “Groog no like tax on flint,” and then smacking the clan leader with a rock. More recently, right here in the civilized United States, there have been instances of violence right in our own Capitol, such as an infamous incident in 1856 when Congressman Preston Brooks (D-SC) walked into the Senate chamber and proceeded to beat the abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) with a cane, resulting in several stitches.
Now, today, in the civilized 21st century, this kind of thing still goes on; In Serbia, on Tuesday, that Eastern European nation’s Parliament exploded in smoke bombs, flares and invective.
At least three lawmakers were injured on Tuesday, one of them seriously, after chaotic scenes in Serbia’s…
