It's called human rights. Welcome to the 1st world. America is in the dark ages when it comes to rights, which is probably why it is good friends with countries who show what lack of human rights is.
It is violence in the mind, which stops people turning the other cheek, this is why it is so normal to own a gun in America. Violence in the mind, not necessarily action.
However, what is on everyone's mind? Never wished someone dead ever, or imagined using your gun, even just in the imagination of defending yourself? Never imagined the violence of an eye for an eye? Making a person suffer?
Of course we are all lambs, not one violent thought, ever. We are just what we speak, and act, or want people to see.
If people feel so threatened or offended by another based on a different belief system or structure, the actual thought pattern that induces it is borderline violent, however, will be pushed as victimisation or persecution. A lot of this psychology happens from certain people on this site.
There is real victimisation and persecution in the world, and it is not this. It is not gay people driving 100s of miles intentionally to test your inner-violent defence of your belief system. Everything is relative. And who is in charge of relativity? You or God?