To Kill A Mocking Bird Chapters 15, 16, 17

So around this time in the book everyone is giving the flinch family a hard time about the trial and how Atticus defends Negros and blah blah blah. Now, it now that education wasn't exactly at its peak in this time period but, I  was anyone back then, I wouldn't give the guy ,WHO'S THE TOP HOT IN THE COUNTY, a hard time. I mean, did everyone forget what happened like, a couple of chapters ago. You know, shot a dog at midnight from a long distance while stumbling without his glasses on. I mean, come on, the dude's a top shot and this is early 1900 south. And I don't think that gun laws were as strict as our modern day north, so back off just a bit.