Two more thoughts before I go.

1. “Free speech” is about lack of coercion by state or through illegal actions. One can wish that Rush Limbaugh or the Phelpses would shut the fuck up and claim to be for free speech without being hypocritical.

2. People who complain about different reactions to “a murder of a few people” and various massacres, current or historical, do have a point, but they’re also missing a few. First off, it has always been so; second, it’s whataboutism. Third, and the last: this is not so much about these particular murdered individuals. It’s about a principle that is one of the pillars of modern liberal democratic societies.