Another excellent post!Your post assumes that nothing has been tried before now.
I fully support any and all non violent and lawful means for effecting desireable change. I especially support doing those things first.
As in any self defense scenario, there is a time for fact finding a time for negotiation, and if the attacker persists a time will come when you repel force with force.
As in this situation how far we must go to preserve our freedom, integrity, and the moral high ground depends not on us but on how long the trangressors persist un their unconstitutional and undemocratic attack against our community.
You can say this isnt Iran all you want to. People with their head in the sand often deny the reality of their situation and comfort themselves with nostalgic rememberances of a past time, past values, that may not ever have existed.
Any student of history can easily study the worst tyrranical regimes of the 20th century, and look at the road that got them there, and look at the world today and make fair comparisons.
It confounds me that any poster might have a good grasp of reality but then still have hope in democratic institutions that are literally failing all around us.