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nedkelly He died basically because someone decided they needed 5 minutes of fame. And this is what they want to celebrate? Don't get me wrong, what he believed came into it, but the shooter admits he wanted to make a political statement, so to me, that is wanting his 5 minutes of fame.
There are a million ways to protest and make statements that do not include murder, but they don't usually get you talked about worldwide.
The people who rejoice in this are truly brain-dead, because some people feel the same way about their loony rhetoric, and they believe your liberal ideas are dangerous for the country.
So, if you advocate violence as a solution, you are handing the other side a tool to kill you with. After all, they are saving the country from a dangerous individual in their eyes. And you have set a precedent that it is a good way to solve those issues.
Of course, it is nonsense to celebrate murder unless you are a reprehensible person who is morally bankrupt.
That's why we don't assassinate people because they disagree with us, and if we are decent human beings, we don't celebrate our opponents' deaths, especially cold-blooded murder.
Shooting someone in cold blood for free speech should never be seen as an act of political protest; it is murder, and neither should it be celebrated as such.
I was asked if it was a liberal activist who had been murdered, would I be upset?
I wonder if I had bothered to answer "yes, I would have" if it would have made any difference or caused them to rethink their own views.
I don't believe it would have, as they had to add the usual "I doubt it."
It must be sad to look at life through such a hateful, suspicious lens as that.
