Well, the real protection is our unwavering willingness to kill someone in power who doesn't respect our rights, as well as those who would fight for them. That's what our country was founded on, and it's why we have the second amendment.

Our country has the expectation that we'll grab our weapons and march on the capitol if our rights are ever called into question, putting fear in every would-be dictator's mind about what would happen if they tried to deny them. We've avoided that duty for so long that now we have a dictator in charge who doesn't fear us at all.

January 6th was not bad because they marched on the capitol, but because they did it to back fascism. We need to do the exact same thing in the name of equality and justice in order to fulfill the expectations placed on us by those who founded this country.