"We want to make sure we have the right rules to keep people safe here," Beshear said. Last fall, 13 members of an antigovernment group were charged with domestic terrorism over an alleged plot to raid the Michigan Capitol and kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Armed protesters have been a common sight outside the Capitol since the onset of the pandemic and even after the Jan. 6 insurrection, with the president of the Kentucky Three Percenters notably hanging the governor in effigy at one protest. Around a dozen masked men wearing camouflage and carrying rifles posed for photos in the Capitol Rotunda in early 2020 — the same day as a large protest against a proposed "red flag" gun law — near the governor's office and while the House and Senate were in session.