Not really.....nope... If they did, we would be doing things a lot differently. In fact, BLM would not have tactical gear and what are essentially trained swat teams..
Some of us do, yes....but the majority does not and has placed a sense of false security above all. This is why the big push on gun control. Guns today, scare people.
What makes American different then protestors at Tiananmen Square in China or in Gandhi's India, is that we have the right to be armed.
"Hands up, don't shoot"
Really?
Every western ever, the unconscionable act is to shoot an unarmed man--even today, that persists in protests over police shootings of people who only had a cell phone.
Yeah, the concept of a 'bad shoot' of an unarmed person is as American as apple pie.
People understand the hell out of shooting someone who is pointing a gun at you, and generally consider it prudent.
I am a staunch supporter of the RKBA, and this crap will be used against it.
Any excessive force will be 'justified' by saying there were "armed" men inside. If you can't see that justifying the actions of those who use excessive force by virtue of packing heat will work against the idea of exposing that excessive force, you are missing the point.
Going in there unarmed, and letting it be known, paints one picture when the jackboots go in.
Having weapons justifies any excess of force they use and obscures the point that the government is being overbearing by justifying any action they take.
Did anyone think this through?