Please don't be offended. I understand that you are just pointing out possible legal issues. You are right that legality and morality are not the same thing. However, as far as you not having "a problem with it", I disagree. I do not see that it helps our cause, as Republicans and Conservatives, to have "one of our own" (so to speak) do something like this. This man gave the Dems, the ultra-Libs, and the MSM the ammunition to use against us. We will be smeared, and ARE being smeared, by the actions of one person who used emotion, not reason, in dealing with these protestors. As I've said before, I expect this sort of thing out of the loony Libs, I cringe when it is one of our own who acts like they do.
Fair enough. Though as a life-long gun nut (and not the pretty, double-barrel engrvaed shotgun-type gun nut), I've come to the personal conclusion that the commies are going to "smear" us no matter what we do; if we do nothing "bad," they'll make something up.
I'm WAY past the "hearts and minds," popularity contest view of politics anyway. But I see where you're comin' from...