From a gun owner to the protestors

I don't have any "assault weapons" and at the age of 65 I'm not going to try taking on the police or military but I still think I'm qualified to answer the question a lot of protestors have been asking: "Why aren't you guys helping us?"

Let's start with a counter-question: "Do you guys really want to go there? To start an actual civil war to be fought in the streets instead of just 'peaceful' protests?" And the follow-up, "If you want ar armed civil war then why aren't you armed?"

It's true that a big defence of the 2nd Amendment is to preserve the option to overthrow a government that has become oppressive. But if you ask a "gun nut" what an oppressive government looks like, he'll probably tell you it would be Marxist with an overbearing centralized government that did not respect individual rights starting with the right to bear arms.

Guess what? If you protestors had your way that's exactly what you'd set up. You've said so. It's in BLM's charter (the organization). Among other things they want to abolish capitalism and the nuclear family. Once you do that you won't want any competition so you'll confiscate guns and we won't have things like the 4th Amendment to protect against house-to-house searches.

So the gun-nuts are going to sit this one out and cheer on the government.