If guns had been involved there would have been 4 times as many casualties and multiple deaths. Good thing no one had guns.
Video shot by an
ABC10 reporter of several fights showed the two groups bashing each other with sticks and throwing objects in a violent, chaotic fracas. Blood stains were visible on the ground and several of those involved were bleeding following the fights, including two neo-Nazis visibly bleeding from their heads.
Police officers witnessed a Klan member stab someone with a knife, an officer told CBS. A counter protester was also found stabbed inside a vehicle, CBS reported.
Syriusly how do you know that armed security
would not have deterred the incident from escalating to violence in the first place?
At anti-Klan and other protests/rallies I've been to in Houston,
the organizers met with police in advance and agreed with the
city where the protestors would be staged, and/or required
all participants to sign a nonviolence pledge agreeing not to
commit crimes or incite arrest. There are ways to work this out in advance
with police, including agreements to report any instigators
who are not complying with the policies for that event.
You act like the only way to prevent violence is to take away guns?
You remind me of people who think the only way to end abortion
is to ban it!
Now if people work out agreements in advance with police
not to have guns, that can be part of the agreement -- but notice
the DIFFERENCE: the common factor is the CITIZENS agree
on what policy will apply to that event. this is NOT about
"other people like you" or the govt/police IMPOSING that.
What makes the difference is where people AGREE to
follow policies by CONSENT.
You can express your own consent or dissent,
and your own choice not to carry a gun.
But for other people, they have equal right to
work out a policy.
Half of the disputes about this whole gun law
policy is objecting to "other people" making
that decision and imposing it, instead of
respecting the rights and abilities of others.
Similar with the abortion issue, it comes across
as trying to dictate policies for others instead
of seeking solutions that RESPECT "free choice"
and don't push laws with unintended consequences.