Missouri Shooting
A gunman, spouting off about killing the mayor and, acording to his brother, disgruntled over traffic tickets impinging his constitutional rights, killed five people at a city council meeting last night.
Over parking tickets.
And his brother defends this nut job, saying,
“My brother went to war tonight with the government,” Gerald Thornton said in an interview with a local television station after the incident. “He decided that he could no longer verbally work it out.”
There was no war with the government. Your brother went from screw-loose crazy to dribbling oatmeal crazy, killed five innocent people and was shot to death by the police. The only thing your sociopath brother did was prove that the Kirkwood police should take local crazies more seriously.
These were members of the community who took time out of of their lives, away from their families, to try and help their community. War with the government? These were neighbors!
Hate speech is not protected because of the risk it poses to other people and society as a whole. Hate speech against the government shouldn’t be either. The right to criticize the government is integra, don’t get me wrong. But lauding this gun-toting maniac’s actions threatens people and society and Gerald Thorton there should show more respect for those who died because his brother couldn’t handle a parking ticket.