one of the three branches of a country's primary government and there would be no repercussions. No consequences.
And not just a symbol of government but against government in the literal sense.
Open and armed hostilities against its elected leaders, to include the Vice-President, and the Constitutional processes of the government.
They treated their choice to engage in a violent attack against the government with such a cavalier attitude. Full of themselves, bloated with the delusions that sustained them, they waged a savage assault on Congress - and such was their fantastical belief in the rightness of their mendacious cause that between violent and deadly skirmishes, they laughed, joked, and recorded themselves for "Likes" on social media.
The insurrectionists left the bloody and injured bodies of the Capitol police in their wake as they fought their way inside, one step closer to their goal - a physical assault on members of Congress and the disruption of a legal election.
Now they cry "Foul" when one of their fellow insurrectionists is - finally - stopped cold.
Finally
Hours into the brutal assault against the government, after hours of violence that had already seen hundreds injured in defense of the elected members of government, a shot was finally fired.
But only after the insurrectionists stood just outside their ultimate goal; a door with glass to hold them back.
Hastily barricaded with whatever was available, a few - very few - armed defenders stood on the other side of that door, doing something they never thought they would have to do - defend members of Congress against crazed citizens whipped into a frenzy by the lies of a thug President.
Someone, please, name another government - be they a democracy or a dictatorship - that would have waited hours before firing the first shot. (under non-Trumpian lead conditions)
That would have waited hours after multiple injuries of the men and women sworn to protect members of government?
What happened on January 6, 2021, was an armed assault against the government of the United States.
And because of a thug President that encouraged and supported the attack, hoping to gain from it, the rapid response that would have taken place at any other time became the last ditch, no other choice effort to stop the murder of Congress members, a Vice President, and to prevent a coup.
Ashli Babbitt was no hero. She was an insurrectionist.
If her family wants to blame anyone - blame Trump. Blame all those involved in the "Big Lie" - to include Ashli herself.
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