[quailfarmer]

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.

[GrinningFool]

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

[hammock]

Statistically, private CCL holders are more law-abiding than even police

[anigbrowl]

You've just seen the people at the very top of the administration saying that just having a gun in any sort of proximity to federal agents = terrorist. If you show up tomorrow with a rifle on the other side of a Minnesota street from a bunch of ICE agents, do you think they're going to prioritize de-escalation and professionalism or just light you up? Serious question.

[mvdtnz]

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

[misnome]

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