She's right.

Sarah Anthony, I mean.

At the very least open carry and most types of firearms ought to be forbidden at the capitol.

Armed black citizens escort Michigan lawmaker to capitol after volatile rightwing protest

Even so, what the gun-nut white Militia types did the other day was inherently threatening and that was the point, the demonstrators meant to be threatening.

So why not a charge of making a terroristic threat or something related, anyway, as some have asked?

And there is such a crime in Michigan as brandishing a firearm, though it's a considerably less serious charge than it seems is needed here.

That open carry even of long guns in the capitol is legal is not a valid objection to either charge, though the contrary notion seems to have been cited by many to justify the politically - and perhaps even physically - cowardly lack of pursuit of prosecution.

Like the neo-nazis and Klansmen in Charlottesville, Trump called these "good people" and urged the governor to "make a deal" with them.

But Trump often gives cover to right wing terrorism, as do his friends at Fox News.

Truth: that it is legal to carry a gun does not make it legal to commit a crime with it.

Armed demonstrations involving blatant intimidation could be punished under existing law, probably everywhere in America.

And ought to be everywhere.