{"id":79740,"date":"2021-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79740"},"modified":"2021-12-20T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:50:04","slug":"not-exactly-omaha-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79740","title":{"rendered":"Not Exactly Omaha Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Feds released the specifics on the suspects charged with “armed insurrection<\/a>” on January 6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some knives, none of which were used. Some baseball bats and clubs and various chemical irritants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five guns – only two of which were found on the Capitol grounds, one of which was a government issued piece in the hands of a DEA agent with all the necessary paperwork, none of which were fired.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byron York (with occasional emphasis by me)::<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the weapons were obviously brought with the intention of being in a fight. Others were clearly improvised on the spur of the moment; in one case, the deadly or dangerous weapon used was a desk drawer. In another, it was a traffic barrier. In yet another, it was a helmet. That doesn’t mean those objects could not be dangerous; one could beat a person to death with a desk drawer. But it does suggest the rioter did not arrive at the Capitol bent on armed insurrection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the overall numbers are relatively small. Eighty-two people charged with weapons-related offenses, out of how many? That is about 12% of the 670 or so currently charged. And 670 is smaller than the total number of rioters on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Does that amount to an “armed insurrection”? Especially when just five people have been charged with possessing firearms, the weapon of choice for modern armed insurrectionists, and one of them didn’t arrive until after it was all over, and none of them fired the weapons, even in the intensity of the physical struggle that day?<\/p>

And that is the problem with the “armed insurrection” talking point. By any current American standard of civil disorder, what happened on Jan. 6 was a riot. There were some instigators, and there were many more followers. A small number were anticipating a fight, probably with antifa<\/strong>. And as the day went on, some people lost their heads and did things they should regret for a very long time. But a look at the Justice Department prosecutions simply does not make the case that it was an “armed insurrection.”
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If this – five guns out of 600+ people charged – is an “armed insurrection”, then the rioters who came to the Midway in May 2020 were Operation Barbarossa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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