[prepend]

> One fired an AR-15 at the police

This is what makes this different. There’s lots of gun clubs all over the place. But if a member shoots at the police (or anyone, really) they are going to get the book thrown at them and everyone associated with them who helped them, etc.

Because that changes your club from something normal to something that tried to shoot cops.

There’s a group in my town called the NFA club or something. They get their rifles out and march around neighborhoods. They stop cars. Quite scary. But they no the law and never brandish, directly threaten, etc. But if one of them ever shoots at a cop, I expext the whole group is going to jail.

[DangitBobby]

It would be nice if cops could start following the law, in this case not firing at non-combatants would have sufficed.

[prepend]

Yes, certainly.

These are separate issues. Cops doing illegal things does not mean it’s appropriate for private citizens to do illegal things.

Compounding the injustice is that probably nothing will happen to the cops, but harsh sentences for the protestors. The solution to this is not shooting cops.

[DangitBobby]

When they don't enact the actual solutions people will start shooting the cops. That's just the way decline of a society works.

[prepend]

No, not at all. As evidenced by the very few people who shoot at cops, even though cops have done illegal stuff forever. And how the few who shoot at cops usually are executed on the spot or have super extreme sentences.

[senordevnyc]

Perhaps cops share your view that democracy and meritocracy are dead, and thus it's fine to victimize other people.