Second Amendment advocate Justin Hall of Roanoke stands guard with his firearm near the Marion, Va. courthouse and Confederate statue on July 3, 2020 Bristol Herald Courier via AP file AT LINK

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The summer months were unrelenting for John Clair, a police chief in rural Virginia.

Clair’s normally sleepy town of Marion was the site of two Black Lives Matter protests where heavily armed militia members showed up in droves, alongside other counter-demonstrators, and engaged in tense standoffs with protesters.