At work one day, we had one of our drivers become disgruntled toward the dispatcher and make a comment about how maybe he ought to just go home and get his gun and come back and "clean house".

What do you think? Just exercising his freedom of speech by making a bad joke, or making a clear threat?

A neighbor (well-known to the police) down the road from us got into a heated discussion with our next-door-neighbor over his dissatisfaction over a newly installed gate across the road that wasn't locked but did require the people to get out of their vehicles to open it before driving through on our private road to take their kids to school which was within very easy walking distance through a (comparatively) very safe neighborhood. Within this heated discussion, he remarked about how terrible it would be if our next-door-neighbor's house were to burn down with the family inside. What do you think? Just kidding or making a clear threat?

That would-be arsonist did have a restraining order slapped on him for that, by the way. That poor oppressed soul.

Do you really think it was okay to wait and see if the sh*t-talker was just making a funny about the president, hobya? He could just as easily have been serious. Would you be so magnanimous if the guy was making such nasty remarks about a member of your family?

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say no.

Yeah, the Feds did make an example of the guy. I guess he shouldn't have broken the law. Most of the rest of us manage that small task without too much problem. Why should he be exempt?

I'm perfectly fine with them tossing his butt in jail. If he's good and keeps his disgruntled yapper shut during his stay in prison, maybe they'll let him out early.

But in the meantime, let's not coddle those types. Part of why the world is in such a mess is because of people coddling the wrong people and thus making them worse. This sparing of the rod crap has to stop somewhere.