What's the Point?

ONLY TWO PEOPLE were shot and killed at the recent Dallas, Texas prophet Mohammed drawing contest, which is a miracle, considering that the place was inundated with angry, aggressive, well armed idiots. Idiots? Look, everybody knows, when you live in the United States of America, and you feel you must ostentatiously project hatred in order to prove to yourself or somebody else that you have first amendment rights, you're an idiot. In this great country we all know we all have freedom of speech and response, and we prove it by using it, all the time. Why flaunt it? Why not just use it intelligently? When I was a kid, I secretly supported the anti Viet Nam War protest, and wanted to join it. I was smart enough to keep my opinion to myself. I finally got my chance at war protest in 1991, enjoyed every minute of it, and to this day I remained amazed at being able to do such a thing, namely, walk down the street with five hundred other people, carrying a sign reading "no war for oil" - and not get hit, shot, or thrown in jail. I knew before, during, and after the anti-war protest march that I had the freedom to participate, freedom of speech. We weren't exercising our freedom of speech just to insult people by drawing forbidden pictures, we were trying to stop a war, to stop the killing. What is the point of "good" Christians deliberately insulting the Islamic faith? We are fortunate that more people weren't killed, and we the people of the United Sane States of America sincerely hope that our conservative Christian friends stop doing insane things trying to make stupid, self evident points.