Anytime someone brings a gun to a protest..... Putin laughs a little harder.

Protest or riot? I agree with your point fundamentally about arming up, but these are no longer protests, regardless of who is responsible. The moment destruction of property, looting and firebombing are normalized activities of protesting, we have lost as a society.

No... The moment we start shooting eachother and justifying it, we have lost as a society.