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In reply to the discussion: If armed people storm a state Capitol building, [View all]jimfields33
(16,545 posts)15. We are not for state murder.
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Don't let anything including the facts get in the way of your personal outrage?
ripcord
May 2020
#141
If you see what he said, they should be ordered to put down their weapons, if not....
George II
Apr 2020
#62
Murder's defined by who draws first and intent. In this case, the state uses defensive force.
ancianita
Apr 2020
#79
I can see all sorts of charges - terrorism, kidnapping (people held at gunpoint), harassment, etc.
George II
Apr 2020
#94
Absolutely. There's probably enough video footage of it all to support any of those charges.
ancianita
Apr 2020
#95
As a poster already pointed out, they are not breaking any laws doing what they're doing.
oldsoftie
May 2020
#151
Many of the images floating around are from other locations and other times as well.
SQUEE
May 2020
#155
There is a standing Executive Order in Michigan prohibiting gatherings of more than several people..
George II
May 2020
#156
Now that I can get behind whole heartedly. Disarm them and enter them onto the "no guns' list.
marble falls
Apr 2020
#25
The fact that they are there protecting the Governor makes the police "fascist" in the eyes of
ehrnst
Apr 2020
#64
It is legal in MI to open-carry a weapon in the Capitol, which is nuts
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2020
#4
If those people had been black it would have been a whole different story.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Apr 2020
#11
Poster is using the comparison that this is a legal form of free expression.
AtheistCrusader
May 2020
#145
(many) White people are threatened by black people just existing anywhere near them.
MH1
May 2020
#132
This is part of the reason that lots of gun owners can't stand the NRA.
AtheistCrusader
May 2020
#147
Here's a story about the armed Black Panthers invading the California
HeartachesNhangovers
Apr 2020
#8
So it's a good thing that cooler heads than yours prevailed that day.
HeartachesNhangovers
Apr 2020
#40
AND they threatened no one, at a time cops were shooting them in their beds & unarmed on the street.
marble falls
Apr 2020
#26
Their causes are different. And I would argue, the Black Panthers comported themselves much
AtheistCrusader
May 2020
#149
I know, those armed white terrorist snowflakes have a history of being murdered, right?
58Sunliner
May 2020
#135
"They are mass murderers." Who did they kill, and which protester(s) killed them?
friendly_iconoclast
May 2020
#178
If armed people in a red state stormed in demanding everyone shelter in place ......
rickford66
Apr 2020
#9
If they were black or brown they would have been shot immediately without ordering them to drop arms
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2020
#36
I agree a hundred percent. They would be the first to wet themselves when bullets start flying
yaesu
Apr 2020
#42
i don't understand how you can carry a weapon into a building where weapons are not allowed......
Takket
Apr 2020
#45
Seems to me this has been the RW playbook since the Bundys got off. Now it's in capitol buildings
dameatball
Apr 2020
#48
Most of those armed at the protests couldn't run up the steps without dropping dead of a heart
Pepsidog
Apr 2020
#59
Yes, it's now clear to anybody paying attention where these fascist terrorists want to go.
hadEnuf
Apr 2020
#81
A little blast of tear gas out of a cannon might give them a taste of reality - as a first step
eleny
Apr 2020
#84
Well at least the nutbags know where they can easily kill a bunch of politicians
Marrah_Goodman
Apr 2020
#98
There are cameras everywhere. The armed people should not be surprised when the FBI
NoRoadUntravelled
Apr 2020
#107
"Lawful people would comply." What they did was legal, like it or not (and I don't, btw)
friendly_iconoclast
May 2020
#167
Agree. They put many lives in danger. It was an armed assault no 2 ways about it.
Fla Dem
May 2020
#129
MinMan and other commentators - How would you square this discussion with "Stand your ground....
EarnestPutz
May 2020
#138
Your questions are excellent (if awkward), and will be studiously ignored
friendly_iconoclast
May 2020
#169
You advocate murder, and such an action would give the RW their Kent State
friendly_iconoclast
May 2020
#168