Kalispell school threat suspect 'tangled' with wrong Twitter user

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Kalispell school threat suspect 'tangled' with wrong Twitter user

February 19, 2015 12:00 pm • By Vince Devlin
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KALISPELL – On Saturday night, Jonathan Hutson tweeted a link to a New York Times story about the deadly attacks that day at a free-speech event and synagogue in Denmark, using “terrorism” as the hashtag. ... He quickly got a response filled with anti-Semitic images. ... And then he got more, all from the same Twitter account. ... A lot more.

“At first, I dismissed it as your garden-variety Twitter troll,” Hutson says. “He was obviously trying to get my attention. I told him I supposed he was a ‘Holocaust-denying bigot,’ and he stepped it up, with images of a noose hanging from a gallows and a message that said, ‘Time to hunt the Nazi hunters.’ I told him, so now you’re a Holocaust-denying bigot who advocates violence?”

What David Joseph Lenio, the 28-year-old who allegedly sent Hutson the messages, didn’t know was this: ... “Of all the people he could have tangled with on Twitter,” Hutson says, “he picked the spokesman for the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence.”
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Hutson says the events over the three-day Presidents’ Day holiday should not be viewed in pro-gun or anti-gun lights. ... “There are thousands of dangerous people carrying firearms who shouldn’t be,” he says, “and I think we can all agree when dangerous people threaten to execute 30 school kids and rabbis, they shouldn’t be walking down the street carrying a gun.” ... But he did offer up this: .... “Sometimes the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun,” Hutson said, “is a good guy with a Twitter account.”