Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-2022375-20150416162445/@comment-25008763-20150416164336

I gave my reasons why and I'll elaborate on it :

Kelly is not an evil man and considering the nature of the X-Men comics he is not actively a villain so much as a man who is geniunely considered about mutants (and rightfully so), many mutants are dangerous and criminally insane.. Kelly doesn't have any superpowers to protect himself and unlike many mutants he has to live with any loss forever.. no coming back from the dead for "normal" citizens.

Kelly sees mutants as beings outside the law who want to harm or even wipe humanity out, he doesn't want to see them dead however.. he truly wants to try and solve the "problem" the only way he believes he can : via increasing monitoring on mutants (who are dangerous weapons, if you think on it)

compare that to many other humans in the X-Men universe who simply target mutants because they hate them and want to completely wipe them out, regardless of age or creed, and he is clearly not a terrorist or madman.

Kelly simply voiced concerns over mutant militants, he didn't hold genocidal hatred of them simply for being "different" and in the end he fully acknowledged he was at fault when he was assassinated, before dying he even begged Cable not to hurt the man that shot him.. he also asked Cable to forgive him for "not seeing sooner".

all in all Kelly was simply a controversial figure, by no means was he a malicious character.. especially considering the downright fascist beliefs many other humans hold in regards to mutants (such as enslaving them in Genosha or having armed squads kidnap mutant children from "troubled homes" etc) - Kelly would never support such things, in fact he opposed such brutality.. all he really wanted was mutants to be more accountable, which despite his controversial methods, is part of "co-existence".