I wish I could afford to live in your neighbourhood where everyone has an extra $700 lying around for buying status symbols

I liked my take on it too, but it’s unseemly to lead with your own tweet (I do that all the time btw)

It absolutely is! She’s running for president, she’s supposed to be promoting herself. She’s also drawing attention to a cause that is speaking truth to power. This is the sort of thing a progressive third party candidate should be doing, and I personally welcome more of this from her.

Thank you for mentioning rehabilitation, which my liberal and feminist comrades seem to have forgotten as something to care about in the heat of this frenzy. It’s all punishment all the time. So disconcerting to me. I’m a rape victim and I hope for his rehabilitation. A longer sentence was warranted, maybe, but i’m…

Right, we’re getting mandatory minimums, which, as drug laws have proved, work well, especially for our brothers of color. Niiice.

Yes, you can. It’s legal to be a member of the KKK, to collect Hitler memorabilia, to offshore your profits, to drive a Hummer, to frack, to bottle and sell tap water.... Just because a behavior’s legal doesn’t mean you can’t criticize it. Carrying guns in front of someone’s house is fucked up. You. may say it:)

No, killing him in this situation wouldn’t be legal, much as you wish it would be. It would be deplorable, and I hope whoever does it gets tossed in jail and prosecuted to the furthest extent possible, but I also hope you stick to this stance that vigilantism is good the next time some nutjob insists someone else “had…

Yeah, and the statement is, “I’m threatening to shoot you.”

This is weird and scary and it sucks. I don’t like guns and I don’t like them being carried by angry mobs and I don’t like guns and mobs in residential neighborhoods.

“Killing people outside of the law is good just so long as *I* agree with it!”

I do not agree that being uncomfortable with armed vigilantes makes someone a “rape apologist”.

“Vigilantism is good as long as I agree with it!”

Just so we’re on the same page, you guys realize that these open-carry nuts are only there to get recognition for their group, right? Like, this is “any stick to beat a horse” syndrome from some of you. They tried this same shit down in Ferguson. They don’t give a flying fuck about violence against women or black…

Yeah I’m less concerned with these whackadoos than I am with the number of progressives online who are celebrating this development. The tweets about it are very disturbing.

Because people’s objections to open carry are not contingent upon the law? I object to it morally, in this case and others. Thus, wrung hands.

This attitude - submitting people to abuses like castration or rape threats because they themselves are abusers - is just law and order conservatism. There’s nothing remotely progressive about it. Progressives used to understand that inflicting evil on evil people does not make you good; it just drags you down with…

How fortunate for society that when the justice system falls short of our expectations there will always be cretins and sociopaths on hand to entirely miss the fucking point.

Armed protestors? Yayyy a terrible situation is now worse...

Absolute stupidity.