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Historically speaking, it would lead to a sudden interest in gun restrictions from people who were previously opposed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act

I wondered about this. If all the people protesting started building arsenals like we saw a couple weeks ago, would that lead to gun control finally happening?

Honestly, it is funny to me that the group most dedicated to standing up and fighting against a tyrannical government and refuses to believe that the military would be called in against peaceful protesters is still standing on the sidelines and watching the violence unfold. The day they realize that they and the BLM movement are mostly on the same side for this issue (anti government heavy-handedness) will be the day that these protests start getting seriously scary.

That realization won't happen as a result of racism and intentional division.

They would have been mass murdered.

People in Waco were also heavily armed.