Technically, he did shoot in self-defense. And if I had been on that jury I would have been compelled to vote for acquittal.

But the fact remains, this slimy little racist piece of shit did cross a state line with a deadly illegal weapon (it was purchased for him by an adult when he was only 17). His purpose was to intimidate and (hopefully, from his point of view) kill or maim “niggers and nigger-lovers”, to put them in their place and show them who is boss. As Trayvon Martin showed us, only white gun thugs are entitled to stand their ground. And he got away with it. And in the future, he will benefit from it.

I know this personality type, I was brought up with this kind of Confederate turd, I know who they are and how they think. They know what they want and what they need to do to get it, and they know just what they are ready to do if they don’t. They are just itching to have an excuse to shoot someone they don’t like, for the purest religious and patriotic motives, of course.

Even if this situation never repeats itself again, and even if the law comes to its senses and puts a stop to it, the fact remains; from now on every demonstration and protest will be accompanied by strutting little self-righteous punks, their deadly weapons proudly and menacingly displayed in carefully studied and meticulously copied combat infantryman poses. This is the true cancel culture: a deliberate use of violent threat to stifle dissent.

The Klansmen don’t even bother to disguise themselves any more.

Wait. What?

By such examples, by instances of the perpetrators of such acts going unpunished, the lawless in spirit, are encouraged to become lawless in practice; and having been used to no restraint, but dread of punishment, they thus become, absolutely unrestrained.–Having ever regarded Government as their deadliest bane, they make a jubilee of the suspension of its operations; and pray for nothing so much, as its total annihilation. While, on the other hand, good men, men who love tranquility, who desire to abide by the laws, and enjoy their benefits, who would gladly spill their blood in the defense of their country; seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection; and are not much averse to a change in which they imagine they have nothing to lose. Thus, then, by the operation of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed–I mean the attachment of the People. Whenever this effect shall be produced among us; whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands, and burn churches, ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at pleasure, and with impunity; depend on it, this Government cannot last. By such things, the feelings of the best citizens will become more or less alienated from it; and thus it will be left without friends, or with too few, and those few too weak, to make their friendship effectual. At such a time and under such circumstances, men of sufficient talent and ambition will not be wanting to seize the opportunity, strike the blow, and overturn that fair fabric, which for the last half century, has been the fondest hope, of the lovers of freedom, throughout the world.

Read the whole speech at http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm