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Respectfully, I don't think that's the case.
Violence is the tool by which we realized our democracy. You get 100,000 people together with guns and legislators will actually listen. You get 100,000 people together with signs and funny pink hats, they'll just laugh at you until you leave.
The only protest that would change things is a country-wide general strike, and Americans are too impoverished or immersed in ideology to consider it.
I don't mean to imply that you are inherently wrong, but when people mention violent revolution, I am always reminded of this excerpt from in the "Afterword" of Emma Goldman's "My Disillusionment in Russia":