Well, I know some us were toting our legally owned firearms, which we also have licenses to carry. Licenses which required background checks to determine that we weren't felons or mentally deficient. Wonder how many of them could pass such a scrutiny?
But we were in the "tear gas free zone" and no one was shot, threatened, or even saw a firearm except those on the hips of the police. Not even when they drove past our site with their signs. We were sort of out of the way, I'm sure most didn't even know we were there. But if they watch Fox and CNN later, they will.