No worries u and I are good...no arguing.
The issue being there aren't protests, like the summer of love wasn't a protest. The same people who called J6 an insurrection worse then the Holocaust and 9/11 are the same exact people encouraging these "protests". Interfering w federal agents job, impeding them, kicking their cars, standing in mobs threatening them and attempting to physically intimidate is not protesting. .let's call it what it is.
I'm a huge pro Gun guy...but just like free speech, carrying a gun doesn't come without potential consequence. If you surround a group of federal agents who are armed, and you too are armed, and it becomes physical,.chances are someone is getting hurt or shot.
This isn't rocket science.. this is political agenda that can no longer be hidden...don't bring a gun to a political protest and think it may not be used one way or another...he didn't bring a gun because it matched his shoes and belt...he brought it to confront the govt in case he had to use it. Is anything here inaccurate?
I hope that your suggestion about hanging the governor of Minnesota was a form of hyperbole to make a point. Because if you are serious, then you’re effectively arguing the first amendment is null and void.
Assuming it was hyperbole, I agree that people who go looking for trouble will usually find it, whether they are on the left or right.
The fundamental act of public protest, however, is core to our constitutional rights. If you break the law while protesting, that is a fact-specific inquiry and of course law-breaking should be subject to law enforcement, whether it’s at a protest or anywhere else.
That is a different issue, though, than saying the protests, or speaking out in favor of the protests, must itself be punished.
Regardless of your opinions about Trump’s enforcement of immigration laws, it is foundational to the Republic that people can protest any government action.
I am merely arguing for what used to be taken for granted: I may disagree with your opinion, but will defend your right to express it. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be a prevalent theory anymore — not among the right or the left…
As for the issue of bringing a gun to a protest — if that firearm was being carried lawfully, then no, it should not be met with violent retribution. If the second amendment protects your right to lawfully bear arms, then it cannot be applied only in contexts that favor one political group over any other.
Be honest — if Tea Party protester was killed in the same circumstances in the Obama era, would you be as quick to defend the government’s actions?
