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Keep in mind, it's not what happened or could have happened at Cville, it's what would have happened AFTER a shootout between the John Brown Gun Club and the KKK and 3%ers. Whoever took the most casualties would surely have retaliated, and a tit for tat escalatory spiral would have resulted. Unless something limited horizontal escalation it could have spread until all of the left was fighting all of the right. Doesn't mean it would have for sure, but means it sure as hell could have.

On the other hand, it's also possible the far-right would lose their taste for murder and death after being on the receiving end, or that what Trump calls the "deep state" would move to limit the violence for their own reason. Something like the latter may have happened a few years ago in Greece: Golden Dawn started killing people, then someone went after them exactly once, and from what I remember the government cracked down a little on Golden Dawn, at which point the shooting war petered out. The former happened in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. The Orange Order's most extreme supporters started boarding busses and shooting anyone who crossd themselves when the bus passed a Catholic church. The IRA paid them back in kind once only, and that part of "the troubles" ground to a halt.