The troubles started similarly from a politically motivated assassination by the UVF. Alongside violent responses from authority during peaceful civil rights marches and the deployment of the British army.
If a civil war starts, you likely won’t know you’re in one until much later.
If I lived in America and was LGBTQ I’d be buying a gun right now, and this comes from someone who has always been anti-gun
We also voted against the Trump crap last election, I’d imagine if America had preferential and mandatory voting they would have too