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The left is armed. Lots of us own firearms; we're just quiet about it because we don't make guns our whole identity because we're not fragile man children.
Trust me, right now there is not an appetite for violence. If things keep getting worse sooner or later we will hear more about ICE getting killed. Probably in a year or less since they're expanding the American Gestapo.
The left owns a tiny fraction of the firearms in civ hands. This isn't some dig at the left. It should be a wakeup call. I'm sure plenty have me tagged here as 2A nut job because I bring it up when shit like this shows up in the news. I'm strongly on the left and I know a lot of other left leaning people, almost all of them are anti-2a/anti-gun.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/24/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/
The left... isn't armed. It's completely outgunned.
Your last point is of critical importance. The populace as a whole is outgunned. Psuedo-militarized police forces and "law enforcement" organizations have us outgunned. Nobody's going out shooing unless they have nothing to lose. And right now, just about everyone still has something to lose. The goal is to keep the population comfortable enough not to riot on the streets.
There's a reason they're targeting the peaceful working class brown people who have families and still have hope that somehow the system will work and they'll be returned to their family. Notice how they're not rolling into the ghettos and trying to clean up the latino gangs where immigrants are definitely hiding. These ICE agents are cowards and bullies who pick on the weak to make themselves feel better.
You just contradicted your first paragraph with your second...they don't go there because those groups are armed.