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Throwing eggs at politicians has been a thing for over a century, without causing wars or civil unrest. People see it as a slightly juvenile way of protesting and move on. It was not some exceptional event that "crossed the lines of an act of violence at a more normalised level". Whatever line egg throwing takes us over, we were over it a century ago.
But yeah, the egg user is clearly setting as dangerous a precedent as the Christchurch shooter. snort
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At a very sad and sensitive time in NZ some child showing off to his school mates by throwing an egg at a politician is not going to help the situation.
We are all stunned by how anyone can carry out such an awful shooting against innocent civilians. This egging has crossed the lines of an act of violence at a more normalised level, which may open the way for others to go further.