'Arms race': How the Portland shooting shows protesters on the right and the left are bringing guns

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Michael Forest Reinoehl lived life recklessly and died violently.

Though he was a middle-aged father, the Oregon man received a gunshot wound when he interceded in a confrontation, was caught driving 111 miles per hour in a Cadillac while apparently racing his 17-year-old son in another car and packed a gun as he joined in the Portland protests.

It was there that he allegedly shot and killed a pro-Trump counter-protester only to die himself Thursday in a shootout with federal agents who had come to arrest him outside Olympia, Washington.

His actions shatter any conception of left-wing protesters shunning the use of deadly weapons while their counterparts on the far right show up in groups that wear military fatigues and openly carry pistols and assault rifles.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/arms-race-how-the-portland-shooting-shows-protesters-on-the-right-and-the-left-are-bringing-guns/ar-BB18IWU4?li=BBnb7Kz

[Phoenix61]

1. No, his actions don't shatter any conception

of left-wing protesters. He had a hx of issues severe enough his family was no longer talking to him.

[Atticus]

2. So, that one incident balances the scales despite the dozens---hundreds?---of shootings

by the RWNJs?

[stillcool]

5. bothsiderism in the extreme..

but that's what some media is all about...and boy don't people swallow it whole.

[Hoyt]

3. Not good. Won't stop all gunz, but they need to be banned at protests.

[Kaleva]

4. It's best to avoid these if possible.

Concede the ground to the dummies who got guns and work to win via the ballot box and other peaceful means.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Exactly! The protest leaders need to move their agenda from the street to elected officials offices

And the ballot box

[Kaleva]

8. Get people to not just register but to actually vote.

Spend that energy on showing supporters of their cause how to fill out absentee ballots correctly and to return them on time.

[magicarpet]

6. Gunz at a protest is as ludicrous as gunz in an alcohol drinking bar.