those rules of engagement should be standard practice for everyone. in fact, the term “peaceful protest” can and should be defined based on ones comfort level at the moment
Going to have to respectfully disagree with you on this one. My post was sarcastic in tone but feeling compelled to run over people has to be justified by a genuine fear of harm. However, like CCW guidelines underscore, even if it is a”good shoot,” your life is still going to be turned upside down and the best course of action is avoiding those situations if possible. Same with the car, if turning right takes you into/toward the demonstrators, it is prudent to turn left and circle around.
However, this strategy assumes (wrongly) a level of civility not currently in evidence among the demonstrators.
In fact, the current wave of demonstrations make a mockery of the term “peaceful protest.” The term from the Ist Amendment is “peacefully assemble to petition their government for redress of their grievances.” Even when “peaceful” (according to MSM), these mobs are filled with people full of violence looking for any excuse to cut loose on persons and property they dislike. That is why there is never a peaceful dispersal at the end of these demonstrations. Instead, there are always bands of rioters intent on using the cover of the crowd and concealment of masks to give anonymity to their crimes.
The last large “peaceful assembly to petition their government etc.” was the pro 2A rally held in Richmond earlier this year where thousands of armed gun owners descended on the capital in an open carry protest of the restrictions on firearm ownership planned by the new Democrat-controlled Virginia state legislature. Alarmed, the legislature hastily passed a law barring non-LEO carry of weapons on the capital grounds.
Unlike the current crop of demonstrators, the pro 2A demonstrators obeyed that law even though it frustrated their protest activities. Thousands of armed individuals still moved freely about the capital without incident. Apparently, having all those weapons in one place didn’t result in some sort of critical mass of spontaneous violence. Maybe guns are just inanimate objects after all ( much to to obvious disappointment of MSM).
As I recall there were some hot heads that ended up being arrested for threats. (Wasn’t there suspicion at the time of a “false flag” operation by anti 2A provocateurs?)
Otherwise, the gun rights supporters peacefully assembled, petitioned/protested, and peacefully departed. They even picked up their trash.