It’s true, lots of states have stand your ground laws that absolutely would apply to the types of aggression cops show to protestors. Police know this, and almost certainly would be trying to keep the event peaceful.
What matter is their method of handling protests is making people panicked, scared, and making them prioritizing avoiding immediate pain…
That literally only works on unarmed protesters, because a very large amount of people have an instinctual response to fight instead of flee. And if even one decides to fire on cops, the cops will all fire back and then so will all the armed protesters.
It’s MAD, mutually assured destruction in the moment.
Because of that, and cops being cowards, they will not follow orders to escalate to violence against armed protests.
It’s their only move, and AR15s and plate carriers take that away from them.
That’s just the reality of it. Clever signs and logic won’t help, we need to make them too scared to escalate to violence and being visibly armed is the only way to make them scared
It’s true, lots of states have stand your ground laws that absolutely would apply to the types of aggression cops show to protestors. Police know this, and almost certainly would be trying to keep the event peaceful.
Legality doesn’t matter.
What matter is their method of handling protests is making people panicked, scared, and making them prioritizing avoiding immediate pain…
That literally only works on unarmed protesters, because a very large amount of people have an instinctual response to fight instead of flee. And if even one decides to fire on cops, the cops will all fire back and then so will all the armed protesters.
It’s MAD, mutually assured destruction in the moment.
Because of that, and cops being cowards, they will not follow orders to escalate to violence against armed protests.
It’s their only move, and AR15s and plate carriers take that away from them.
That’s just the reality of it. Clever signs and logic won’t help, we need to make them too scared to escalate to violence and being visibly armed is the only way to make them scared