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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Didn't they already storm the statehouse in Michigan with nothing done about it?
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Indeed, and the government did the smart thing by allowing them to state their grievance, and no violence happened, not even the slightest.
The brandishing of weapons to a certain section of the population is akin to their right to free speech. It's demonstrative, and largely not meant to create violence. However, that particular group was making vague threats to legislators, and the entire house called for their arrest by state police if they do it again.
I imagine that due to the history of voter intimidation in the U.S., there would be far less tolerance for people bringing weapons to polling stations. This is an entirely different situation than people protesting government shutdowns, which is a major intrusion into their personal life. Voter intimidation is anti-democratic, and certainly anti-freedom and anti-constitution. I don't think you would see even a little bit of police tolerance of these sorts of actions. What they would likely do is keep them away from the polling stations and let them shout whatever they want with their guns in hand, but that's about it.
I'm not saying it's not possible that people could do this on voting day. What I'm saying is that it would have nearly no effect on the vote. What I'm far more worried about is Trump denying the results and causing a constitutional crisis, and THEN you have men armed in the streets causing civil violence. That's far more likely IMO.