First, there’s many types of leftists, a concept that conservatives seem to be unable to grasp. Second, because you really don’t want to see the appropriate response unless absolutely necessary. That is to say, death mitigation.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

— MLK

This description fits most liberal Americans.

I swear to God if I sift through your comments and find something about the lack of gun control in the U.S.

Edit: surprisingly few comments, nothing about gun control. You’re in the clear for now.

Decades of conditioning

Too many view it as “too radical” cause it’ll interrupt brunch.

we gotta take the “high road”