Think about the stand-off at that ranch in Arizona or Nevada or wherever it was. Both sides were heavily armed and it was diffused without much incident. Comp

Think about the stand-off at that ranch in Arizona or Nevada or wherever it was. Both sides were heavily armed and it was diffused without much incident. Compare that to student protests in big cities where the police start tear gassing and clubbing hippies with reckless abandon. They know the students aren't going to start shooting back so they can escalate unilaterally, whereas if they did with the ranchers they'd be getting into mutually assured destruction territory.