Regardless of what response you favor, BLM did back off in the face of armed intimidation

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15. No one got shot, people have the right to assemble

And why worry about guns? I have a heard plenty of times here that guns won't have any effect on the government because they have an endless supply of bombs, tanks, etc and so on.

Now, put yourself in the shoes of a cop/blm officer. Guns are but one threat - knives, bottles, cars, sheer number of people, etc all pose a threat (people in large numbers have access to a lot of methods to do harm).

You pick and choose your battles and make an effort to get the best results in given a situation. While some probably hoped this would turn ugly and confirm their biases that is not what happened.

As Carter was saying this week - the US loves to use force. And what usually happens is a lot of people die for nothing.

Just because one does not like the people protesting and their method is no reason to wish for the outcome to be one where one side we love to arm and have go to war ends up shooting innocent civilians whom we wish to have no obvious weapons (but as noted, have plenty of other ways to bring about harm).

And maybe folks wouldn't be so upset if our government would actually focus on justice - for people like bush, torturers, the banks, etc and so on (the government lets them slide and they don't carry guns, but walk around with a lot of money).