Anything Fairbanks and North is -20° F or lower a good portion of November-March. Kenai peninsula and North to Fairbanks is 20 to -20 F° in the same period. Southeast is the warmest with 40° to -10° F.
Southeast has been weird as fuck in the last decade though, it went 2 or 3 winters in row with no snow until past the new year. And what years we did get snow before new years rarely stuck around for long. Compared to the decade before where it's 2ft deep starting end of October and didn't leave until March at the earliest. Things are far warmer than they where. And the one glacier I see regularly has shrunk by 100+ ft of depth in the last 30 years. Shits unsettling as hell to experience.
Because Americans are stupid, some of them because they choose to be, others because the education system was designed to fail them. A significant portion of the population doesn't understand what K° is, if they know it exists at all. Source: Am American
Hate it or otherwise, the enemy is armed, and if their fervor isn't matched they won't stop to think. If they have to consider you an equal threat that forces at least some of them rethink their position. And some of them will walk away, cause their hate isn't as powerful as their will to live.
Those too hateful to see reason you where always going to have to fight tooth an nail, but at least there will be less of them.
Their plastic/resin is garbage, and you're right that the sculpts are flawed, especially in the finder details. I bet if they tried this in metal it would have worked out better.
As someone who has had to paint mini faces before, this isn't aweful, not great by any means but could have been much worse. They definitely need to thin their paints, probably use a smaller brush, and go slower. But in the person would painted this' defense, faces are so hard to do well, and even harder to fix if you fuck it up.
If they die from the beating they no longer need to be healed.