Weeks ago, Gary Mills was attending a church service in the Salt Lake area and got agitated over a song being sung, and went outside, and allegedly said, "I would be ready to take up arms and bomb federal buildings,"
The next day, police arrested Mills, hauling him off to jail for investigation of making a terroristic threat.
Now, some people believe we should take up arms against our government. Is this a crime? Should they be arrested for verbalizing their beliefs?
I don't know where Gary Mills was on the spectrum of those considering violence. But, it is perhaps obvious there are some who believe America is on the wrong path, and the only way to correct it is by coming to blows with the government.
Do we jail them? Do we jail them for their beliefs?
I believe words from a book of scripture might say something like, There is more power in the word than in the sword. I wonder but what locking a person up for a terroristic threat often only puts off the problem until he is released from prison. We should make talking them out of violence the key to our response to terroristic threats.
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