Note that a few comments up I’ve already said killing someone over this is wrong. No one is arguing that people should get the death penalty for drawing Muhammad. The argument is that you’re a huge asshole if you do, because there’s no reason to do it besides pissing people off.
What percentage of vets would you estimate are persuadable?
That’s what I see as the central question here: if a group of people can be convinced to become leftists, we should be working with them regardless of whether it’s difficult. We’re not going anywhere unless we get literally tens of millions of more people on our side, and not all of those people are going to be perfect.