Several members of a heavily armed white nationalist militia have been arrested by Trump’s own FBI because they were planning violence at Monday’s pro-gun rally in Virginia. Now Trump pours fuel on the fire. This is the President, encouraging domestic terrorism. 
For his own political advantage, the President is putting in jeopardy the lives of Virginia politicians (one is already in hiding due to death threats), ordinarily citizens, and law enforcement officers. cnn.com/2020/01/17/us/…
The President’s brazen disregard for the safety of his fellow citizens, and willingness to endorse domestic terrorists, should come as no surprise. He did it on the campaign trail. And yet people voted for him. washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…
In other GOP-officials-encouraging-domestic-terrorism news, this happened yesterday in the state of Washington. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
A thread with more information on the SEVEN far right terrorists who’ve been arrested in recent days and were planning violence for Monday’s rally in Virginia. This is not a drill, or a joke.
As someone who's done significant research in the 18th century archive, I can confidently say that there's scant evidence that the founding generation intended the 2nd Amendment to be a "break glass in case of emergency" invitation to shoot at duly constituted authorities.
I can confidently say that many people in the founding generation, like Paine and Jefferson to name just two, expected that the people would use both the electoral process and constitutional conventions to deal with situations where the gov't was out of step with the people.
