- Moderator
- #361
Saying it, in a mob situation, where they are all fired up against Pence is different. Mobs can kill. Same mentality as a lynch mob.Iāve heard people say ākill the ump,ā too. Saying it isnāt the same as meaning it.
See that is what drives me nuts about this. The idea that you have to have a gun to be lethal or dangerous.I am not forgetting any of it. You seem to forget that nobody in that fired up mob who got inside the Capitol had a gun.
Rather than claiming that you know what they wanted to do based on an angry chant (idiotic though it may have been), Iād submit it is more logical to base that determination on what they were prepared to do. Being unarmed, they werenāt prepared to do much more than they did do: trespass, property damage and some assaults.
Being unarmed was a deliberate choice by many, based on guidance passed around that guns would bring much harsher penalties. Instead they came armed with pepper spray, mace, baseball bats, iron polls, tazers.
āsome assaultsā is a gross minimalization of an event that led to over 150 police injured.
Humans arenāt much different than dogs. A dog pack is dangerous wher as the individuals, on their own, are not. Same with a human mob. I have no doubt, given how the injured police, that they would have killed Pence if they had gotten hold of him. You donāt need guns to kill.