Many conservatives have trouble understanding the deeper context of our times.
The left’s goal is to silence speech by intimidation—they are using every tool in the toolkit to make it happen.
Jones was an easy target—low hanging fruit—but at the end of the day they are coming after you.
Well, if I slander you, or libel you, or threaten you specifically, then I deserve it, exactly as if I discharged a firearm into your home.
It’s pretty hard to prove libel or slander, it requires not only that the statement be false but that the person defaming *knew* it was false.
Sometimes the ‘low hanging fruit’ is just rotten.
It’s a lot like guns. I am a fervent believer in the right to own, and carry, damned near anything. However I don’t have the right to drunkenly brandish a gun, threaten people with it (other than in self defense), fire it up in the air, and can reasonably be held responsible if I loan it to a child, a known criminal, or a drunk.
Idiots like Jones, much like a moron neighbor I had who later chased his girlfriend’s lover down the street shooting at him after he caught them, deserve no sympathy and are useful idiots for the Left.
No, it is perfectly clear that free speech and intimidation is a two party problem. So often people on FR use insults, accusations, IBTZ, threats of violence and other tactics. They are hurled at anyone that does not agree with the crazy narratives. We need to clean our own house before trying to clean someone else’s.