Active duty is an entirely different issue and subject to UCMJ.
“Should they just be kissed on the other cheek”
No, as I posted (in the post you apparently did not read to the end), they should be beat up and publically humiliated.
As a conservative, I don’t think government is the knee-jerk answer to things I don’t like.
So you contend that vets should just beat the living crap out of these cowards and then have them file assault charges against the very ones that fought and died to give them that right?! And wanton violence is the answer you would thus prescribe. Sorry if I don’t buy into your convoluted vision for what ails America. I can do without your kind.