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Is that the lesson? What do you mean "at least get yours in"?
I was being sarcastic. A guy open carrying, following the law, gets shot at, and he's characterized as a murderer. A guy shoots at someone following the law, kills someone else, and he's sleeping peacefully at home tonight.
It makes it appear that protesting is less acceptable than violence. Similar story with Kyle Rittenhouse. Shooting your firearm is considered proof that you feared for your life, and are therefore justified.
I think the "lesson" here is, if you're going to participate in a "peaceful protest"...leave your fucking guns at home.
All you're doing is putting everyone around you in danger...from law enforcement on the one side, that's itching for an excuse to escalate violence against protesters...to private security in the other, that's itching to shoot at counter protesters looking to start trouble.
No, either Americans have the right to wield guns, in which case y'all need to just accept that and realize that assembling a gun during a protest is legal and therefore not suspicious Or, y'all need to realize that your gun laws and culture are incompatible with modern society, and do something to change them.
There's a massive difference between a "protest', and an armed confrontation with police. One is a display of solidarity in the face of violence...and the other is simply asking for it.