[Tired of Taxes]

Adding to my last post...

What Brooks did was not self-defense. He was not defending Butler, either.

He attacked Sumner two days after Sumner’s speech. That was not self-defense. It was revenge. It was attempted murder because he beat him so badly, continuing to hit Sumner after Sumner fell unconscious.

[DiogenesLamp]

What did Sumner think was going to happen when he talked like that?

Even his friends knew he went too far.