Absolutely right. Joe Average most likely will cheer the fact that "they got what they deserved" because "they were freaks and nuts, they said so on television, so let 'em burn!"
Joe Average does good to be able to spell the word constitution, let alone have a rational thought about its meaning and purpose. If people don't wake up to reality soon, God help us all.
Most constitutionalists or libertarians of similar bent that I have come across have at best a comic book quality of understanding of the Constitution. They like to puff and preen over their allegedly vast "true-believer" knowledge, but in truth they all mangle and force that grand document into narrow, cramped pigeonholes of their own biases and prejudices.
People who fairly understand the Constitution are very rare indeed.