Is There a Difference Between Armed and Not Armed?

I think Mike did a very elegant job of drawing that distinction, which says these people not only have a right to defend themselves, but they probably have a good reason to. And he got right to the core of it. It's these ideologies deeply baked into our institutions of white supremacy, basically all way back to colonization. He was basically writing the lyrics to Rage Against the Machine song. The things that were required to get to that point of like a potential shootout would be a total breakdown in policing. But beyond that, they all have distinctions and we shouldn't draw an equivalency.