Yeah, I was surprised by that too. I know Louisiana has a very weird legal system, but I can’t imagine it is sufficiently out of the mainstream to turn shooting someone in the course of an argument into voluntary manslaughter instead of murder in the second degree.

Eh, I’m not sure American conservatism is significantly worse than France’s National Front, Britains BNP and UKIP, the Netherland’s Party for Freedom, Hungary’s Fidesz or (god forbid) Jobbik, Greece’s Golden Dawn, Germany’s Pegida, the Israeli settler movement (especially those factions associated with Avigdor…