> A classic liberal would have said "I may not agree with what you say, but I will die for your right to say it." What happened to our country? The people on t

> A classic liberal would have said "I may not agree with what you say, but I will die for your right to say it." What happened to our country? The people on the other end of the spectrum started threatening to shoot them with the guns they already owned. While that has been going on for quite a while (Phil Gramm and his quote about hunting Democrats with dogs, for example), it's probably within the past decade or so that people have started taking the threats more seriously. Words matter. Your actions matter more, but words are the precursor and it's impossible to know if the person on the other end of the internet is really kidding or not.