The American culture of violence is inseparable from our identity, says James C Wright, while the image of a blood-stained Trump reminds Rev Robert Titley and Roy Stewart of classic artworks
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.