You don't take a man's life because you disagree with his statements, no matter how bigoted or backward. You don't take a father from his family because you think his words are dangerous.
You don't do it if the target is conservative. You don't do it if the target is progressive.
Words will always be dangerous. That's the promise of the Bill of Rights. You fight them in the public forums. You fight them with argument and voting and policy. Anything less is to deny the goals of our "great experiment" and devolve into chaos. The answer to existing chaos isn't deeper and more chaos.
Even if he felt empathy was an idea made up by the "wokes," I still feel for his children reeling from the loss of their father, his wife mourning the loss of her husband.
You can play the "but they..." game all you want to find ways to justify or condone or even revel in today's actions, but there is no level of "but they..." to justify it.
And I'm once again reminded of what John Donne says far better than I can...
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