Violence is unacceptable but the continued destruction of our nation is not.
Paging George Washington...hey, you can't wage war cause violence is unacceptable.
If the courts do not repeal this, then violence is totally acceptable and needed. Of course, we have to let them get in the first punch.
Since when is violence unacceptable?
Speeches and protests didn't get rid of Nazi Germany. Violence in Europe did.
Letter writing campaigns and Get Out The Vote drives didn't stop the North Korean incursion into South Korea. Violence on the Korean peninsula did.
Sit-ins and protests didn't stop the spread of Communism in South East Asia. Violence in Vietnam did.
What stopped the USSR from taking over Western Europe? Dozens of divisions of American troops ready to do violence across Europe and the North Atlantic.
Violence or at least the credible threat of violence is the ONLY thing that's ever stopped ANY tyrant.
That's what the Second Amendment is there for. It's a threat to politicians that the citizens have the capacity to do violence to tyrannical despots in government.
I agree that traditionally we in the US have not used violence to pull down our political masters and remind them that they are servants very often. The Battle of Athens is all that comes to mind at the moment.
But the credible threat of violence was instituted directly in the Bill of Rights for a reason.
The weasels in Congress want us to back down, calm down, stop being angry. Well of course they do. They want to get back to business as usual...ignoring us.
So the pussbags in Congress are scared, are they? Worried about some citizen dragging them out in the street and introducing them a little more directly to a rock or a brick?
Good. They're supposed to be afraid when the trample on our rights.