Those are the props they use to further their true cause, which is government control, always couched with terms like safety, fairness, equality, etc.
You are being USED, people.
They are Useful Idiots.
Not this fellow, but as another poster said, when a homosexual, hispanic, conservative appears, the cognitive dissonance it invites in their tyrannical pea-brains is so unbearable to them that they cannot control themselves and resort to violence.
And people better get off the “Leave California/Massachusetts/OtherLibState because it is a lost cause” because liberalism is a corrosive, invasive cancer, and even conservative states like Georgia have politicians like Cynthia McKinney, and states like Texas have cities like Austin.
The cancer isn’t going to stop at a state line.