“The opening picture of this article shows the ONLY reason BLM and the Feds backed off. There were another 50 like him...and another 50 in the hills with scoped rifles.”
Actually, cameras and peaceful disobedience are far mightier weapons in this stage of the fight. One shot at a Fed would have changed the entire situation, much the worse for our side. Bundy would have been labeled a terrorist and it would have given the administration an excuse to label every conservative in the nation a terrorist and start confiscating stuff.
At the point where the feds are prepared to shoot unarmed civilians on camera, the nation will have much bigger problems that it does even today.
Whoever fires the first round in this new war will lose.