One cop was beaten. 25 people were killed and 2000 cops injured this summer.
The pipe bombs were not part of the riots, and were left at both parties' HQ's. Those are not seats of government. We also still don't have a suspect in custody or know the motive.
A total of 7 people had weapons that were confiscated. 7 people is not a "vast RW conspiracy" to overthrow the gov't, it's a slow lunch rush.
Plus, they weren't frisking everyone. If hundreds had shown up armed at least one firearm would have made it into the building and been deployed. It's more likely peaceful idiots who are trying to exercise their second amendment rights in a city that doesn't allow it.
My point is that while it was a riot, and inexcusable violence occurred, it was not some extremely organized military operation. And the reaction to it was not commensurate with the reactions to 7 full months of rioting, looting, occupying, fighting and killing we saw this summer. 152 federal buildings were attacked. In Portland protestors barricaded a populated police station and then tried to burn it down. That was brushed under the rug while we painted slogans on the streets. This is being used to try to eliminate political opposition and end constitutional rights.
If you can't see the hypocrisy in all of this that's because you're trying not to.
Below is one man's story who got arrested with a firearm from an NBC story. Likely most or all of those arrested with weapons were making some ill-advised second amendment stand or are just ignorant that DC has different laws than the surrounding states.
Charles Snell, 40, and Timothy Wolfe, 32, drove up together from Chesapeake, Virginia, to take part in the Trump rally, arriving about 11 a.m. They had been on the road for about three hours and were excited to take pictures at the event and to be "a part of history," Snell said in an interview.
But they never made it to the rally.
Snell turned into what he thought was a public parking garage on 12th Street, just a couple of blocks from the National Mall.
A security guard stopped the car and asked whether they had any weapons inside, Snell said. Snell, a private security guard himself, had a handgun in his backpack in the back seat. Wolfe told the guard that he had a gun on the floorboard, a Glock 9 mm with 12 rounds in the magazine.
The two men were placed under arrest on charges of carrying a pistol without a license, possession of unregistered ammunition and possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device.
"It was my fault," Snell said. "I didn't research it before I came, or I wouldn't have brought fingernail clippers on my key ring. Heck no."
"I'm doing security," he added. "If I get some kind of conviction, I might end up losing my license."
Snell said they brought their guns only for security during travel to and from Washington.
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