Oh, nonsense! She didn't mean anything of the sort! No matter WHO made that post, if I was in doubt about the thrust,I'd have asked them to explain before I jumped on them......and with Ebbie, I'd never have worried.

If she'd said, "Better one of the people he was shooting at had killed him," I'd have agreed with great enthusiasm. But she was implying that ANY Black person should have a license to kill any racist type. She didn't specify.

Reading such a crazy tone into a post is the forum equivilent of 'carrying a chip on the shoulder'.

Naw. It's just being the Devil's advocate. On this list, I tend to take conservative positions because it's crawling with knee-jerk liberals who don't really want to think through the issues. On lists that are crawling with knee-jerk conservatives who don't really want to think through the issues, I'm likely to take liberal positions.

It's more fun that way.

Peter