California

I appreciate your point, but I would also point out that these fascists call graffiti 'violence' and even 'terrorism' (see the AG response to vandalism at Tesla dealerships).

If they resort to lethal force, it must not be responded to with violent resistance they expect.

Then what else? Because in such a situation you only have fight or flight.

Mostly with you until the last paragraph:

If they resort to lethal force, it must not be responded to with violent resistance

Do not ask others to Martyr themselves. Active self defense is as critical as anything. My advice is to avoid life or death situations as much as possible, but if you find yourself in one do whatever it takes to get out alive.

It must make them question their actions. It must wake them up to the problem they have caused.

You cannot force someone to change their mind, opinions, feelings etc. and here their livelihood, social status and self esteem is reliant upon them never changing their mind. You can however prevent those actions that cause harm, by force usually.

The longer they don't suffer casualties

Casualties means killed, injured or otherwise incapacitated. I don't disagree that injuries and death result in massive backlash of public opinion (it's also why ICE, cops, etc also don't immediately resort to lethal measures) but the goal in modern civil conflicts like this one (of both sides) is to maximize casualties of that third category.

These police probably still use off the shelf DJI for surveillance. They probably can't run EW because it'd knock their own drones out of the sky. Someone should check.

Except as soon as one person pops off, every cop with the state-funded military gear will indiscriminately return fire because they really really want to use all of their bullets at once then go home and beat their spouses on paid leave.

This is California, the state with the strictest gun laws in the country on the books. You're asking civilians with compliant arms to go up against literal military surplus equipment (provided through the 1033 program)?

Also, nice bot username. Let's see if you reply to any of the comments.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with US politics, but the Venn diagram intersection of people who have advocated for civilian firearm ownership AND resisting stricter immigration laws is vanishingly small.

Mostly Democrats are upset about the current ICE push, but they also spent the last several generations trying to eradicate civilian firearm ownership, particularly in California.

I'm on the side of of both more guns AND due process, but it wasn't until recently that I've noticed traditional lefties waking up to why the second amendment is important.

My hope is that the left remembers this feeling the next time they're in power.

These people are going in with armored vehicles, SWAT gear, and military equipment. A single vigilante isn't going to do shit other than get murdered and probably get everybody around them shot as well. We have to be smart about this. We have to be organized.

They used to. They don't on vehicles made in roughly the last 8-10 years depending on manufacturer.

Unfortunately local cops are in favor of killing citizens.