There was no crime.
It's fine and proper to fire a co-worker who makes such a video. But not to throw him in jail.
You need to think very carefully about what you are advocating. Your attitude is a far bigger threat to free speech than Gospar is to AOC.
I can see you didn't read my post that gives the exact law that makes what he did a crime.
Go back and read post number 82.
Yes there was a time in our nation when all of our police forces took your attitude with this sort of thing.
Women kept ending up dead.
Then I think it was in the 90s when laws began to be passed that helped prevent this.
One of them was the Violence Against Women Act.
It is a crime to threaten or intimidate an elected official.
My post number 82 quotes the law. I can't help it if you chose to ignore it.
Yes, I want people who think it's ok to threaten and intimidate elected officials to be prosecuted and put in prison for their crimes.
You aren't a woman. You don't know what it's like to live in fear.
I am. I know what it's like to live in that fear so I'm not going to be accommodating to anyone who does what gosar has done.
Promoting violence, threatening and intimidating anyone is wrong and some of it is illegal. Both civilly and criminally.
There are women's shelters all over our nation filled with women and children fleeing violence from a man. Mostly because the police in their towns or cities won't lift a finger to protect them from the violent man who has threatened and intimidated them.
It needs to be taken seriously.
Not taking it seriously perpetuates the violence, it gives the violent people the belief that they are perfectly free to continue to terrorize people through threats and intimidation.
