I may be way off base, but I never saw any point in attending a “counter-protest” where my right to be there didn’t overshadow that of the protesters. For instance, when you go to a public park to counter-protest a group of protesters, your right to be there is equal to theirs, and vice-versa. To me, you’re just going looking for trouble in this scenario. Personally, I would want some advantage. I would want to face the protesters on my own turf, or somewhere I had a right to be and they didn’t. This turns the protesters into trespassers. At that point, the game changes. At that point, their rights vaporize and yours reign supreme.
You may then say “They could just pelt you with soup cans while you stood in your yard.” I don’t know where you live, but where I live, that’s assault with a deadly weapon on my own property, and deadly force is definitely an option available to me.
You need to get our there and protest.
Don’t cede the truth or the streets to these bass turds.
What you say makes perfect sense of course, but we've all heard stories of folks who were arrested for defending themselves and their property.. In this day and age it seems that what's right and what's wrong isn't about the law as written.. It's about what's politically correct at the place and the time of occurrence.. :(
The Mayors, courts, judges, and prosecutors have gone off the rails and all need the fear of God, and fear of the people, put into them..