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

March 6, 2025August 23, 2021 by Dan Zimmerman

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

March 6, 2025May 13, 2020 by TTAG Contributor

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

March 6, 2025May 7, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

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

AP Report, Michigan Prosecutor Imply Flint Guard’s Murder Was Due to Armed Protestors at the Capitol

March 6, 2025May 5, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

We ran a post yesterday about the murder of a security guard at a Flint, Michigan Family Dollar store that investigators suspected followed a dispute about a customer who wasn’t wearing a mask, as mandated by order of the Governor. Yesterday, a woman, her husband and son were charged with the murder. The woman had … Read more

Horn: Protesting With Guns Keeps Your Message From Getting Through

March 6, 2025May 4, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

The problem, as I see it, is that you will never remember what the message that frustrated Michiganders were trying to convey, because of the ugly nature of some of the protesters. Honestly, I’m not afraid of guns and open-carry, I grew up with guns in the house and on the farm. The problem quickly … Read more

Governors Using Coronavirus Deaths to Restrict Constitutional Rights

March 6, 2025April 22, 2020 by TTAG Contributor

By Therese Inacker Just as in the push for the more gun control laws, fear and emotion are used to overtake logic and Constitutional rights. Liberal Democrat gun-grabbing governors around the country are dancing in the blood of those who have died from COVID-19. Even as facts arise showing that keeping the economy shut down … Read more

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