There was no 'violence of the arrest'.  AND for the second time so HOPEFULLY it gets through your skull into your brain... GARDNER REPRESENTS ALL of Colorado NOT just 10 activists who want to make a stink and stage a protest for something that will affect them NOT AT ALL.  

But if we were to use your analogy small conservative groups should schedule sit ins at Democrat officials offices and demand to be heard to the exclusion of any other voices for 100% of that officials time.  And if they get thrown out then said Democrat is 'silencing' their opposition and not 'listening' to their constituents. I can guarantee you that you would not be the least bit upset about that either.