Anti-gun Nut Crosses the Line

That edited video is absolutely abhorrent and that guy should be arrested for cyber-harassment and threatening harm to another person.

I'm all for free speech and the right to post disagreeing opinions, but when you cross the line of threatening physical harm to another, cyber-stalking/cyber-harassing them, you are scum in my book and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

Sadly, as Dana pointed out, threats of violence are particularly an issue for women who are online. This story was reported months ago:

Anita Sarkeesian, Ashley Judd aren't ignoring violent trolls — they're fighting back
By Yohana Desta
Apr 24, 2015

In 2009, Sarkeesian created the video web series Feminist Frequency to address the way women are portrayed in "pop culture narratives," according to the site . As "a woman on the Internet," she was used to getting negative comments, but things blew up when she created a Kickstarter for a video project called "Tropes vs. Women in Video Games," which aimed to analyze female stereotypes of women in the gaming world.

What followed was an almost instant flurry of online harassment, so vitriolic and misogynistic that it altered the course of her life. Her social media activity is bombarded with racist and sexist comments. She constantly receives rape and murder threats. Strangers attempt to dox her, disseminating her personal information online. Her website, social accounts and email accounts are regularly attacked by hackers.

She's become "hyper-vigilant" in her daily life, employing security and being watchful of restaurants and coffee shops she frequents. Sarkeesian refuses the term "paranoid," however, because it implies irrationality.

"It’s been going on for three years nonstop," she says. "There’s nothing irrational about my fear."

Last October, she was forced to cancel a talk at Utah State University because an anonymous threat promised "the deadliest school shooting in American history" if Sarkeesian spoke. However, she was still willing to speak, provided the school amp up security measures. They didn't.

If you hadn't heard about #GamerGate, this is what sparked it all. And the threats she received for it are unbelievable.

As I've said before, "What you allow is what will continue" - every website and social media platform needs to step up their efforts in addressing this issue, and law enforcement needs to start dedicating task forces to this. As mentioned in the article, all too often victims are faced with the problem of law enforcement being ill-equiped to investigate, or even understand (if you have to explain how Twitter works before being able to describe the illegal activity, that's a problem), the illegal activity. In addition to all of that, many states are behind in even having laws passed to prosecute cyber-harassment. Colorado only passed one this past July .

I hope they catch that guy, and anyone else who thinks it's okay to threaten others over and over online.