Okay, does that mean Trump supporters can take firearms, blades, and polearms to rallies - and use them if attacked - because we know the Californians or whoever won’t play nice and the cops don’t have to protect them?
Sure sounds that way to me?
Spot on. The government’s case here is that one should expect to be violently attacked for exercising one’s First Amendment rights, and government has no obligation to defend you or your rights.
It is only logical then that one exercises one’s Second Amendment rights in order to defend one’s First Amendment rights. Is this what San Jose is arguing? Sure sounds like it.
BTW personal professional experience with San Jose PD has left me with an indelible impression that they are equal parts lazy and incompetent. Nothing since that first impression twenty years s ago has led me to re-examine that assessment.