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Yeah.
Honestly I see Brian Thompson as way worse than this hypothetical drug dealer.
Obviously, the drug dealer is bad: he's effectively killed people by selling fentanylaced drugs (presumably without telling his buyers what they were actually buying). But Brian has effectively killed thousands.
In both cases I have sympathy for the kids. In the drug dealers case, I might not be crying my eyes out about the death; but I still wish some form of non-lethal recourse had been taken. This person's death doesn't send a very effective message, as most other people in his position have already accepted the risk inherent to what they're doing.
In Brian's case, non-lethal recourse wouldn't have been effective. If he was left alive he would've just kept killing people for his own profit, but his death sends a message to others in his position. People who usually wouldn't see any sort of consequences for their actions.