Normally I dont give the leftist tools advice, but why not try letting people excercise their free speech rights. And maybe just try winning some intellectual debates every now and then. If you show up at someone elses gathering, with the sole intention of breaking up the gathering, you are a fascist and you are not an American.
They are unarmed in that regard; and in the dark recesses of their reptilian brains, they know that.
Antifa attacks photographers early on at protests because they know what they are doing is wrong and don’t want the masses to know.