

In the USA in an area where open-carrying is legal, a person holding a gun is not a reason to shoot into a crowd them. Only the “security volunteer” shot their weapon; and someone was killed.
The jury will do what they want with this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they acquit because of the tension inherent to the march, and the fact the shooter was a volunteer. Gamboa was fully innocent. Still, there needs to be some trial, or else “I saw someone with a gun” will become a de-facto excuse to shoot anyone you want.

And if the anti-Trump crowd could stop broadcasting “Peace at all costs” and start growling a bit, Republicans wouldn’t be brazenly pushing through 50% of Project 2025 in the first year of Trump’s term. We probably didn’t even need to fire a shot… except now, where Republicans Know we aren’t going to do shit. Now with the surveillance networks like Flock, I doubt this administration will show any hesitation ever again.
Instead we get people chuckling “Oh I hope it won’t be that long” and going on their day… It doesn’t have to be, but it will be if you let it.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a great speaker; but it was the Black Panthers and the rioters that got the Civil Rights Act passed. Non-violence has a place, but it can’t be the whole picture. Especially when people are being tortured in Alligator Auschwitz.