Catholics don’t bomb people when they get upset. At least, not since the Good Friday Agreement...
Your comment, coming four months after the thread went cold, took me a few moments to associate with the original article, etc.
That said, the general sense I take from your remark is that the journalistic insulting remarks and mocking of Christian religious practices would be a lot less frequent if there were real physical consequences for the journalists and their enablers.
But, as you point out, that strategy, undistinguished retribution for real or imagined insult, carries within itself discredit and defeat for the underlying cause, no matter how noble it may be.
At base, the issue is anger, what is its source and what to do about it. The article is a layer cake of incident, retribution, pettiness, and revenge going back to the beginning of human history, if we care to trace it that far. To break this cycle requires a willingness to forgive and a willingness to be forgiven.
But forgiveness requires the real power to punish and the receiving of forgiveness requires genuine acceptance that the act(s) in question are, in fact, an offense.
Neither side has the requisite attributes.
Those who in the past opposed homosexuality and gay marriage have, in the name of tolerance, created a state which is increasingly secular and hostile to religion as more and more of its citizens become nonreligious. More importantly, its cultural and political leaders have become so morally compromised that every denunciation of evil now requires a pause to calculate how their political constituencies will react.
On the other side, persons locked in self-defeating sin have, through patient subversion of institutions, unfettered themselves from moral condemnation and convinced many others that what was sin is not sin but simply a difference to be celebrated.