Not related: Since the Nixon era many millions of rural Americans have been amasing hunting rifles and practicing target shooting as a hobby. Stocking piles of ammo for future needed usages. Spent many seasons sitting up in trees, camouflageing as part of that tree, waiting for hours for the chance of shooting a large mammal in the internal organs to kill it from a 100 yards away...
They don't need to amass large protests in cities they don't care about. They just want to form protection for the small communities that have always been there for them.
Not related: Since the Nixon era many millions of rural Americans have been amasing hunting rifles and practicing target shooting as a hobby. Stocking piles of ammo for future needed usages. Spent many seasons sitting up in trees, camouflageing as part of that tree, waiting for hours for the chance of shooting a large mammal in the internal organs to kill it from a 100 yards away...
They don't need to amass large protests in cities they don't care about. They just want to form protection for the small communities that have always been there for them.