Brave American Arrested for Expressing Feelings

That is so weird. It turns out that if you call up a politician and say “I want to kill you,” they’ll charge you with threatening someone’s life. What is this country COMING TO when we have NO FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS? How could he have killed a politician through the telephone anyway? Why are politicians like Senator Patty Murray so afraid of free speech and these telephones? Why isn’t it understood that when we call up total strangers and say “I WANT TO KILL YOU” it obviously just means “I DISAGREE WITH YOUR POLITICAL CHOICES AND HERE IS WHY?”