If I leave my garage open with my brand new Mercedes running unattended, it may not justify someone stealing it but I may as well be "begging" for someone to steal it. Begging was obviously a figure of speech in that statement. No one begs to have bad stuff happen to them but when you do something very stupid and inflammatory to others with negative and foreseeable consequences, it's hard to feel sorry for you when the bad consequences occur.
I suspect that you would understand this pretty basic point if it were a conservative doing something aggressive and inflammatory at a liberal group's rally.
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