High school shooting in Parkland FL

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  One man's murderous terrorist is another man's freedom fighter/patriot.  

That doesn't  mean they are in any way on an equal footing in the US or have equal support among the public.

I agree. However, the thing about right-wing militias is that they don't really give a damn about public support. It's built into their ideology that those who oppose them are either part of the government conspiracy to suppress their rights in furtherance of a totalitarian agenda or are the unwitting dupes of government propaganda. In either case, their opponents are not real patriots. It's the paranoid right's version of No-True-Scotsman.