I'd prefer to tackle the hard subjects with both rhetoric and reason and try and forestall that potentiality.
There is a very small percentage on the left who are involved in the violence.
Their coalition of the fringes is not monolithic.
I'm not saying don't prepare for violence, be prepared.
The right has to be able to demonstrate that we are the "strong horse", even before or in the act of diffusing violence.
If the public perception of who is the best for their individual interests and who is the strong horse switches to the right, the whole leftist program collapses.
This is not the time for ideological rigidness. Examine your presuppositions and axioms. Some are worthy of dying for but many are not.
As a gun owner I'm very sensitive to the part of the Lords Prayer that encourages us to pray "lead us not into temptation". If it comes to violence in the protection of innocents let's all have clean hands and a clear conscience that we worked to avoid violence.
This is the only board where that post turns into "What caliber"
45 acp and 5.56 and 12g, you have to run what ya brung.