“It was absolutely unreasonable.”
You seem to have misunderstood. I didn’t say the government took reasonable steps - I said it was reasonable for them to believe there might be further violence in the face of (1)A recent record of violence & (2) Further radicalization of rhetoric that could lead to violence.
“And this was in response to something like two or three attacks on abortionists — among more than 20,000 murders every year — in this country of 250+ million people”
There are two responses to that:
(1)
The number of people people being killed was not strictly relevant because this sort of violence is especially antithetical to America. We don’t use violence or fear to achieve change that we can achieve democratically. It destroys the process when people do so with impunity.
(2)
I would suggest that protestors at military bases aren’t killing people but some protestors at abortion clinics were. It seems to be reasonable to take extra precautions in situation where people are being killed vs. situation where they are not.
Really?
I am not aware of any abortion protester killing anyone, at least not while in that guise.
Can you provide a citation?