Only 41%?
- I think of it this way. 41% are willing to say the killing was justified to a perfect stranger.
  
  Guessing here, but an absolutely a MINIMUM of an additional 20% find it secretly acceptable.
  
  After the shooting, hundreds [if not thousands] of doctors and nurses were posting stories about how insurance companies had literally killed people by withholding treatments.
  If you live your life in a way that makes a lot of people want to kill you, you can't be surprised when you get shot.
- Seems low. Like if they polled exclusively young conservatives or something.
- I don't think I'd be considered "young" anymore, but I don't know if I'd say I support it.
  Is the world better off without him? Yes.
  Did he deserve to die? Yeah, probably.
  Do I want to support vigilantism? Probably not.
  Would it have been better if he had to deal with some terrible incurable and deadly disease? Yeah, if karma was real.
  
  I'm almost 40. And I support it.
  All other avenues are closed. All the proper and acceptable forms of redress are either coopted or outright captured. Civil, political, or otherwise. Peaceful Protest is universally ignored because it lacks the implicit threat of violence that makes it effective elsewhere in the world.
  “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
  
  I feel the same way about Brian as I do about trump. Not sad or angry that they got shot, but I'm upset that someone shot at them. In a better world, we would be empowered enough that the answer to these moneygrubbing grift barons would come before violence, unfortunately, when you only react to violence, violence becomes the only answer.
  For my FBI agent... I do not have plans to harm anyone, and this comment is an observation of the current political, social, and equality situation in the US, and not an advocation of violence.
- A further 19% were neutral.
  
  "I have no strong feelings one way or the other."
  ―Neutral President
  "If I don't survive, tell my wife, hello."
  ―Neutral President
  "All I know is my gut says maybe."
  ―Neutral President
  
  What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or maybe you were just born with a heart full of neutrality!
- Same, this number seems way too low. Even from my skewed perspective of a "old guy" - fastly nearing 40.

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