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Dope1: The mob wasn't armed, so your facts are off.

What now?

But a review of the federal charges against the alleged rioters shows that they did come armed, and with a variety of weapons: stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles wielded as clubs. An additional suspect also allegedly planted pipe bombs by the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties the night before the riot and remains at large.

They also carried knives, batons, and chemical sprays, including bear spray. The Justice Department said 122 of the people who have been charged in connection to the riot “have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon.”

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The full picture of how many among the crowd were armed before the riot occurred is unclear, but court records, trial testimony and accounts from police officers and rioters have supplied growing evidence that multiple people brought firearms to Washington for Jan. 6, 2021. Six men were arrested that day for having guns in the vicinity of the U.S. Capitol, and a seventh who arrived after the riot ended was arrested the following day. Despite some instances in which alerts about people with guns turned out to be false alarms, accounts from police officers and rioters indicate that many firearms were spotted on Jan. 6 but were not seized as law enforcement focused more on defending the Capitol than on arresting gun-law violators.

Wrong, as usual.

Dope1: There was no insurrection.

Well, lessee.

A violent attempt to illegally seize control of the powers of government by using force to try to keep the loser of the 2020 election in power, blocking its transfer to the rightful winner sure sounds like an insurrection.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capit...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/fact-check...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/08...

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