And Then...?

"At some point they will be bringing bike locks to a gun fight."

Yes. Yes, they will. And then...?

I've pointed the same thing out several times.
But in most contexts, as a bug, not a feature.

The point of things is to dissuade them from going that far, if such is possible.

"Stop, or I'll shoot!" only works until someone is brave enough to call that bluff (or, in Antifa's case, like many home invaders, stupid enough to think it is just a bluff), and then it's time to switch from conflict de-escalation to sight placement and trigger squeeze.

Generally nifty, in net terms, for you in your own living room. In the public square, not so much.

Because once you start shooting people in the streets, that's not the end, it's the beginning.
The minute you go to guns, TPTB jump in with both gorilla feet.
You win your battle with the pawns - the Bike Lock Guys, Moldylocks, and poisoned little dwarves like Yvette Felarca, et al.
But unless you're ready to march on the nation's capitol, you lose the war with the state, both the one you live in, and the State you live under.

So, on a bare satisfaction level, their like will die, as they always do, with a surprised look on their faces, and an extra anus or three. That outcome hasn't really been factored into the cake, for them.

But what about at the level of those who're funding their escapades (outside of taxpayer subsidies for student loans, and public institution tenure for faculty Reds, I mean)?
D'ya think George Soros hasn't been pushing for exactly that response from Day One, as an excuse to push his agenda?
Do you figure that Chuck You "Blood In The Streets" Schumer won't dance in the blood while it's still warm, with a "SEE? I TOLD YOU SO!" moment, which will be simulcast on ABCNNBCBS 24/7/forever? That it won't become the reason to roll back the last 35 years of CCW and Constitutional Carry progress? Anti-gunners were cheerfully willing to sacrifice MLK and RFK to pass the Gun Control Act of 1968. They roistered and capered in the blood of schoolchildren to get the Assault Weapons Ban(s) passed. Think they'll bat an eye over sacrificing a few mouthy teachers and porn stars to roll back Heller and McDonald?? Srsly???

They're waiting for that moment. Most of them are probably salivating at the prospects, and all it's going to take is a few thoughtless amped-up assholes to hand it to them on a silver platter, with an apple in its mouth. If rabid shiftless gender studies students get shot within a country mile of any campus, "school shooters" is the nicest thing they'll call you and anyone like you, for years.

And the nutless, gutless RINO Congress and Senate (ptui!) will shit themselves passing it. And Pres. Trump will sign it, because it'll pass with a veto-proof majority (if not unanimously in both houses), and no sense fighting a battle you've already lost. And John Roberts will cry about it, but then Pelosi or Schumer or whomever will wave around the midget/clown/donkey porn pictures they have of the Chief Justice, and it'll lose in SCOTUS by 5-4 or worse. Game. Over.

Leaving you right back in the fight of your lives for civilization itself, against everything.
You ready for that fight, now? Or next month?

Then throttle back, boys and girls. It'll come, soon enough. No need to rush it.

In the meantime, no one's saying you need to take it in the liver if the public anarcho-communists want to get sporty.

But nota bene, you can't retaliate in public, on YouTube, and 57 cable channels, and then spike the ball in the end zone, unless you like everything I laid out above, in spades.

Everyone knows who Bike Lock is. His entire pathetic life is now on the Internetz, to the 97th degree. Everyone knows Yvette Felarca. And Moldylocks. And with about 7 seconds, the entire Phoenix John Brown Gun Club. These @$$tards have a flippin' FaceSpace page, fer cripes sake. This is how you can tell you're dealing with Useful Idiot pawns, and not players. MS-13 is gonna whack 'em any minute, just to get their shooting hardware without a waiting period or background check.

For the rest, who can say?
In the event of foul play, the police would only have 100,000,000 suspects with a motive.

And just for informational purposes, imagine the hijinks that would ensue if one or more of them were found one morning not only whacked, but beheaded, with an ISIS flag nailed to their doors. Or their headless torso(s). Just saying.

Everybody thinks they want to poke the bear. Think it over.
If you don't want to end up playing the bitch in a bear porno, like Leo DiCaprio in the godawful @$$load waste of celluloid The Revenant,

then you'd damned sure better have some marshmallows to throw down to keep his attention focused on not eating you.

And then your own side, and the reasonable but undecided middle, are going to start to wonder aloud whether you did everything reasonable, prudent, and goddamed possible to thwart the other side six ways to Sunday before resorting to night letters, and midnight calls.

"War is a continuation of politics by other means." taught von Clausewitz to the ages. So you sure as hell had better have tried and exhausted every political solution in the attic, garage, and basement before you go all John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and try to hatch the next war all by your ownself.

You can't grow crops by pulling on them, and a noose is a tough necktie for anyone to wear.
Especially out of season.

Thus endeth the lesson.