USA Today: Everytown ‘Study’ Says Right Wing Armed Protests Turn Violent Twice as Often As Left Wing Protests

The study examined 560 instances in which individuals – whether the protesters themselves or people who opposed them – brought firearms to demonstrations. In roughly one of every six of those demonstrations, “violent or destructive activity” ensued, the researchers found. At protests where no guns were present, one out of 37 turned violent. Violent or destructive acts were carried … Read more

Media Ginning Up Boogaloo Fears as Armed Americans Protest Ongoing Lockdown Orders

There’s a certain segment of the population of gun-owning Americans who will bring up and wargame the impending “boogaloo” any day of the week that ends in Y. At the same time, the civilian disarmament industry and the media — but I repeat myself — love to hold up not only boogaloo devotees, but open … Read more

Litman: Guns at the Capitol are About Anarchy, Not Liberty

This is the animating force behind guns in a state Capitol: If you pick up a long gun you’re suddenly a hero in the lineage of Jefferson, a modern-day American revolutionary. In reality, the armed Michigan protesters are the heirs of the benighted Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and the Oklahoma City bomber. Tree of … Read more