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That's your prerrogative; I respect that. It won't be small differences like those putting us on opposite corners.
Will I call the act of Mangione as brutal? Yes. But it ended there. The guy did not went on a rampage, after the man's family and others. So, it was a resort to force, not to violence.
We're seeing violence being enacted towards groups and individuals. Mass killings in Gaza, torture, starvation, exposure... that is violence.
Going up against a group, even if well organized, by attacking and eliminating key figures, that's force.
Allow me a more down to earth example: you see an ICE raid mounting. You organize a group of neighbours, hold the cops at gun point, beat the lights out of them, in extremis, a few die, and warn them they are not to come back there.
That's force.
You kill everyone, raid and destroy their station, go after their families and friends, and hit on sight every single agent.
That's violence.