If anyone is surprised, they're idiots.
When a nation criminalizes NONVIOLENT protest of its policies, it courts violent protests of its policies.
This is not to defend the violence. It is to point out agreement with the OP that no one should be surprised by violence when nonviolence is criminalized.
When you complain, your friends roll their eyes and your enemies smile
"Because I SAY I am" is fallacy, not science
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not your friend
An opinion you won't defend is not yours. It's someone else's
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?