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Comment by mvdtnz

4 hours ago

But not a single person has actually done so. Until it can be shown that armed citizens are making a genuine difference against government agents it's still just bluster.

Disagree. The most valuable feature of a fraction of people having guns is that the risk of someone having a gun discourages the most extreme harassment, even if no gun is ever fired.

  • Yes, just like government operators were recently discouraged from escalating with that one protestor who had a legal gun that he wasn't using.

  • If only there was an extremely high profile example of how this isn’t at all true in the past several days!

  • Two protesters were murdered by government agents (one of them armed!). How much more extreme do you want to get?