Yes and they dressed like this:An estimated 22,000 people, many of them armed, showed up in Richmond Virginia to demonstrate against their proposed new gun laws. Not a single shot fired and they cleaned up before they left.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/us/virginia-gun-rally.amp.html
And said things like:
Chris Dement, 22, said that he was glad to see the demonstration was peaceful but that he was prepared to use a 9-millimeter carbine — which he brought to stand in solidarity — for self-defense in case of violence.
“It’s never out of the realm of possibility,” he said.
And:“It’s never out of the realm of possibility,” he said.
“Guns protected this country for a couple of hundred years, and this two-faced governor just wants to take them,” he said, referring to Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat who has agreed to sign provisions banning guns in parks and limiting handgun purchases if Virginia lawmakers approve them.
So, increasingly, the debate is between pretend soldiers who want essentially zero gun control, want to intimidate to get their way, exaggerate and refuse to engage whatsoever with reasonable proposals to address gun violence, and include at least some violent supremacists on one side and a growing group of moms, citizens and politicians looking into measured answers to provide for the well-being of their families and constituents on the other.
The rally you're fond of might not be sending the message you think it is.