"On the other hand, every white man who played vigilante in Charlottesville this weekend went home unharmed to his family, having successfully overawed the police—and having sent a chilling message of warning to lawful protesters.
"No other democracy on Earth tolerates such antics. When libertarian-minded Americans lament the over-militarization of police, they might give some thought to what it takes to police a society where potential lawbreakers think it their right to accumulate force that would do credit to a Somali warlord. And not only accumulate it, but carry that force into public to brandish against fellow citizens who think differently from their local paramilitaries."
David Frum at The Atlantic criticizes the "carrying of firearms by random citizens into public places."
And Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern at Slate write that "[r]allies with guns cannot be treated, for First Amendment purposes, in the same fashion as rallies with no guns."
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