Your editorial on Donald Trump’s shooting (14 July) neglects to mention the long history of violence that has characterised life in the US since its founding. It’s a violence against the perceived other, the violence of slavery and the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, the violence against workers as a product, the violence of capital that creates violence against authority.
You might well have mentioned the history of state violence overseas: from the so-called Spanish-American war through Vietnam and much of south-east Asia and Central America to Iraq and Afghanistan and the ongoing violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
