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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou don't bring bear mace/wasp spray to a rally unless you've planned out exactly how you're going..
..to use it.
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Walleye
(31,022 posts)GopherGal
(2,008 posts)Pretty hard to come up with an innocent explanation for carrying those.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Botany
(70,504 posts)Lock 'em up.
For all of my 74 years except for the past five years I have heard the Republicans claim to be more American, more patriotic, more supportive of the military and law enforcement. Since 2015 their leader - AND THEY - have attacked and denigrated all of those categories, things they would have called treason if done by anybody else.
The witnesses have cried describing their injuries and the physical and emotional pain, the insults against their service and their patriotism and their race - and it is predictable that they will be mocked by the wingnuts for their tears.
*** Already on Fox they have been called crisis actors. Woke is soon to come.
*** By the bye, when those anti-democracy TERRORISTS packed up their Bowie knives and cattle prods, what was their intention?
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)This was all well organized and orchestrated. Knifes, bear spray, stun guns, all of which are weapons. Who stopped the guns and why? Someone knew it would have been a Massacre.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Thank goodness.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)He got a plea deal for 51 -63 months and a 2K$ fine. Other defendants have received the same deal for the same charges. Just enough time to pick up skills and recruit for the next attempt. Believe me they won't make the same mistake twice. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/oath-keepers-guns-jan-6-capitol-riots
Under The Radar
(3,401 posts)They broke multiple laws that day and stun guns, bear mace, and bully clubs arent legal to carry as weapons in public either.
The organizers knew that guns would mean death. The National guard was told not to have any weapons by the Sec. of Defense- and Trump told him, why? They were armed to the gills during the BLM marches, and even had army helicopters. Why not J6?
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)They built that gallows.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)There were groups on FB and Rwing forums discussing which brands, or home recipe, would do the most damage weeks before the attack. There was even chatter about carrying acid, but that thank god most agreed the risk they would wind up being burned in the deployment was too great.