If they convict it will be an indictment on the 2nd amendment and self defense. It will send a message that the rioters are a protected class to destroy as they please. It will ruin the credibility of our judicial system. It will empower the Bolsheviks. Mob rule and tribalism will win.... .
That is exactly the outcome they want.
Might be a spark in the tinder of an overgrown forest...