# What would America do if Muslims with guns protested outside of churches? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 8, 2015, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814 "2015-12-08T11:23:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814/61 "2015-12-09T18:21:00Z")
A gentle reminder that your opening comment was 100% wrong is in some way not relevant? “Pretty much” is supposed to offset a significant portion of their history? OK. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814/62 "2015-12-09T19:22:58Z")
Yes, it pretty much does. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814/63 "2015-12-09T19:26:52Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > A gentle reminder that your opening comment was 100% wrong is in some way not relevant? given that I was not wrong, and careful reading, and moment’s thought would have told you that, yes. > [@](#): > > “Pretty much” is supposed to offset a significant portion of their history? A decade of relative popularity in a 150-year history? Yes, especially given even during that peak, outside of a few states, public association with the Klan was still avoided as the kind of thing that ended careers. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814/64 "2015-12-09T20:11:31Z")
> [@furt](#): > > The current protesters fear reprisal from the same people the Klan did: the authorities, and the larger society. So the masks are to protect them from the authorities and the guns are to protect them from the terrorists. It seems they are totally covered. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814/65 "2015-12-09T22:37:24Z")
> [@furt](#): > > A decade of relative popularity in a 150-year history? Yes, especially given even during that peak, outside of a few states, public association with the Klan was still avoided as the kind of thing that ended careers. They do not have a 150 year history. They have a series of five or six decades, (during much of the time they were dormant), over 150 years. They were only subject to legal sanctions for brief periods in the 1870s and 1960s, trailing a bit into the 1970s. Other than that, from the 1930s through the early 1960s, the police were liable to have been members and social sanctions only began in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814/66 "2015-12-09T23:05:24Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > They do not have a 150 year history. They have a series of five or six decades, (during much of the time they were dormant), over 150 years. They were only subject to legal sanctions for brief periods in the 1870s and 1960s, trailing a bit into the 1970s. Other than that, from the 1930s through the early 1960s, the police were liable to have been members and social sanctions only began in the 1960s. Yknow, it’d be easier to just say "oh, I missed the qualifier. Decline to continue the hijack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-america-do-if-muslims-with-guns-protested-outside-of-churches/739814.md?page=3)