Yeah. The leniency afforded people who act violently, even though not necessarily injuriously, toward conservatives is only going to cause problems down the road. One day in the not too distant future, Ann Coulter or Pat Buchanan or some other conservative speaker is actually going to be *hurt* by something other than a pie or some salad dressing, and then the fecal matter is going to hit the fan. The liberals who have tolerated these attacks are going to likely do a lot of backpeddling and blame-shifting on their prior tacit approval and encouragement of them, and then there will likely be some kind of *very* public so-called discussion in Congress and state capitols. That means, of course, that there's either going to be nothing done or that there will be a classic American overcorrection. Instead of just putting the target on the perpetrators and their ilk, *everyone* will lose some more of their rights and liberty.
Vandalism and attacks by Democrats and other Leftists against conservatives has been growing over the past several years. I don't believe I need to make any kind of mention of where this *is* heading.
I really doubt there will be backpedaling. In the 60's, when people got hurt, the left's reaction was denial and, when that failed, whining about good causes. There has been no fundamental change in leftist thinking since then.