Given Hopkins’ service record, calling him a coward seems well off of the mark. I believe governmental types are just mad that he handed them their collective posteriors. Was what he did wrong? Yes. Was the cause he was defending his family for a noble one. Very unlikely. He did wrong and has been convicted for it, but coward is not a good descriptive of him. People who throw that term around because they dislike someone or their actions often seem unaware of the word’s definition. Increasingly, we see examples of that by local officials in the media. They should do better.
Previous deeds do not a lifetime hero make. Hopkins acts in his ambush of the Florence County Sheriff’s Depart and Police could easily meet the test of “a cowardly act”.
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Given Hopkins’ service record, calling him a coward seems well off of the mark. I believe governmental types are just mad that he handed them their collective posteriors. Was what he did wrong? Yes. Was the cause he was defending his family for a noble one. Very unlikely. He did wrong and has been convicted for it, but coward is not a good descriptive of him. People who throw that term around because they dislike someone or their actions often seem unaware of the word’s definition. Increasingly, we see examples of that by local officials in the media. They should do better.
Previous deeds do not a lifetime hero make. Hopkins acts in his ambush of the Florence County Sheriff’s Depart and Police could easily meet the test of “a cowardly act”.