I wish. Unfortunately the opposite seems to be happening, as what these kinds of guys actually do is normalize being threatened (by white men) with a gun in public. Waving a gun around, pointing it at people, actually making threats - these are all things that have happened at “2nd amendment protests” in recent years, with no one getting arrested or even cautioned. Everyone just shrugs their shoulders as the gun-fondlers escalate their threatening behavior.
Like the “anti-lockdown” protest in North Carolina last year - it got attention because some of the protesters had fake weapons (ha ha, how funny!), but what didn’t get widely reported is that one of the people in this group threatened a Black family that just happened to be walking by. Nothing happened, no arrests, in fact at this point I’m having great difficulty finding news reports that even mention it, as they get swamped in search results by stories like this:
This is the only one I could find, but it’s behind a paywall:
