Bear in mind that Luther was doing nothing wrong when he posted his 95 Theses. Yes he was angry, and yes now it looks like a radical action, but hammering a piece of parchment with a list of doctrinal queries was in his era not the first step in declaring a schism but was a legitimate, and in fact THE established, way of asking for a scholarly debate. He was, in other words, challenging any who opposed his views to a public argument. What's more, monks coming up with reinterpretations of doctrine wasn't unusual in this era - in fact it was pretty much what scholarly debate existed on, and scholarly debate was not just rampant, it was seen as part of a monk's duties. If Luther was assassinated just for that, it would be treated like a murder of an innocent, but really there was no reason even the most psychopathic, trigger-happy defender of Catholicism would want to kill him at that point.