a couple things spring to mind in the aftermath of the events in Charlottesville this weekend. Take them with a grain or two of salt.
I don't see how carrying guns to a protest is anything like peaceable assembly, as guaranteed under our laws. Bringing your weapons is picking a fight. Some on this board refer to carrying weapons as carrying 'inanimate objects' and the fear of them is irrational. Meanwhile, these armed protestors are there to defend an inanimate object, namely the statue of Robert E. Lee. They simply cannot have it both ways.
After terrorist attacks, Trump is usually on his Ywitter account before any facts are released condemning "Radical Islamic terrorist" for the crime. This weekend, he declined to directly condemn the White Supremacists for their acts of terror.
Reasonable Conservatives should not be lumped in with the pile of human debris that is the White Supremacist movement. Yet some of those reasonable Conservatives wonder why reasonable Muslims do not condemn the acts of unreasonable violent Muslims. Sauce for the goose, folks. If you want Muslims to condemn terrorism by Muslims, isn't it only fair that you lend a full throated condemnation of unreasonable Conservatives? I understand that you don't want to be included with White Supremacists. I think reasonable Muslims feel the same way.