Only if they're regular citizens. Somehow masked federal thugs don't get shot; somehow the 2nd Amendment gun-humpers who so opposed federal tyranny have disappeared.
Quite the contrary. Events such as these reveal who really believe in a sovereign, free, people and who is just cosplaying.
For example, Pritti and Rittenhouse were completely within their rights to be armed at a protest.
Rittenhouse defended himself against a mob that started attacking him unprovoked; Pritti was executed by federal agents.
And gee... he's notably absent from Minneapolis. Why is he not "defending" people from tyranny now? Because he's a coward who only goes on field trips to shoot unarmed people.