My husband is such a comedian. Always looking for a peaceful medium.

[Baitball Blogger]

He says that anyone who went into the offices, the gallery or the floor of the House or Senate should be held accountable. But he said he saw one older lady who needed help coming down the stairs, and it's because of her that he comes up with the conclusion that those that just followed everyone into the building, and left without destroying anything should be off the hook.

Of course, my head exploded.

So he says, it's like the old lady who gets stopped for speeding and she says, "Officer, I was in the flow of traffic. That's why I was going 85 MPH."

And then he takes that to the next conclusion. He explains that many protesters were just in the flow, following everybody into the building shouting, "We love Trump, We love Trump." Until they looked around and realized the flow had lead them into the building. And that's when they corrected, and left peacefully.

I'm sure he was only half kidding.

[Chainfire]

1. They can only be excused if they were mentally impaired to the point that they could not distinguish

right from wrong. I would grant some leeway to the people who were absorbed in the moment and approached the Capitol building. My standard would be that if you so much as put a foot on the lower steps to the Capitol, you are complicit in the sedition.

I would defend, with my life, the right of the people to protest. It ceased to be a protest when the first barrier was breeched. To the people, and it was most of them, that remained outside of the controlled area, I just consider them stupid. If there were laws against stupid, we would have to use all of the land West of the Mississippi as a prison.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. There were too many who said that they were there to storm the building in order to stop

the election process that would ceremonial give Biden the win. They used the word, "Revolution." So, I don't know how anyone can claim that they didn't see how violent it was going to turn out.

[sagesnow]

2. Moral of Story

It is permissible to always let 80 year old ladies speed!

[pecosbob]

4. I think that those that entered later like Auntie Gertrude with the walker may get a pass

Those that were attempting to force entry points being defended by Capitol Police before evacuations were complete will not get such treatment. At a minimum there should be several hundred arrests...perhaps more.

[LeftInTX]

6. This concerns me because once the barriers are down, how do they know that barriers were broken?

A whole mob was "let it"..I saw the cops saying, "You can go in, but be respectful"...WTF?? How can you hold someone accountable for trespassing when cops are telling them that they can go inside??

[GemDigger]

5. I saw a video of a little old lady who was right in the front near the woman who got shot,

She was loud, arrogant, shouting to break down the doors and inciting for more. Also saw a lot of little old men inside inciting. Age is not relevant in guilty or not guilty.