Quote:At some point, you have to look them in the eyes and tell them you wont back down. I don't know how submitting to these radicals can be interpreted as a victory. These are not "irrational" people; these are terrorists that want to kill YOU. This art gallery wont provoke the person you described in your post.

 

While you see this as someone that provokes another's action, I see this as someone that did something that is necessary to remind everyone that we wont have these freedoms taken away... even if they're senseless and sometimes stupid. 

 

Two terrorists are dead, and there are two fewer people in this world capable of harming anyone else. 

 

This contest is not where the battle line must be drawn. The right to freedom of speech is not under serious threat in this country, despite what the self serving fear mongers would have you believe.

 

I disagree, the terrorists are irrational psychopaths, looking for anything upon which to release their rage. It was pure luck they did not succeed in killing anyone, but if they had, it would have been a senseless loss of life.

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