It is not OK to shoot anyone ever other than self defense or defense of others, absolutely.

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5. It's interesting that people make up these scenarios of public abuse of a minority as if such events

were somehow unknown or uncommon in our culture. As if Westboro Baptists hounding hundreds of LGBT events, mostly funerals, for several years and in all 50 States went unnoticed or that the fact that Westboro was 'religious' exempts them from criticism for doing what they did.
And the history is very stark. They carried on like that for years with hardly a peep out of any segment of straight America, which only responded when Westboro expanded to Veteran's funerals.

The fact that we did not react with violence to Phelps does not mean what he did was not provocative, it just means we dealt with it like thinking people.