"Your argument amounts to, 'when a customer enters the bank, it's okay.'"
Just because two groups have opposing political aims doesn't mean they're equivalent. One attempted to take our nation's capital by force, the other attempted a sit in.
Show me literally one single source that indicates the Women's March people were out for blood. Were there any casualties? Injuries? Was there even any fighting?
Show me one source that proves that the trump supporters were “out for blood.”
The point of the protest was not to “take the capital by force.” That’s cartoonish and unrealistic. The point was to express disapproval of the election results. Where do you get your information from?
Sicknick died as a result of a blood clot in his brain. His death was not the direct result of any protestors actions.
Show you a source that says the people who murdered someone were out for blood? You say he died due to a blood clot in his brain, but the police statement says that he died due to injuries sustained while physically engaging with protestors, and a homicide investigation is open.
Not literally everyone was there to take the capitol, obviously. But that was the point for many people. This was entirely predictable. See [1] [2] or especially [3], wherein someone back in December describes exactly what ended up happening.
Why bring guns and zip ties if you're not there for violence?
> Why bring guns and zip ties if you're not there for violence?
Got it, so you have no evidence they were out for blood. It’s just a bad faith assumption on your part, ignoring that people often carry weapons for good faith reasons. Ignoring that no one was attacked with said guns except for the protestors.
It has not been proven that Sicknick was murdered. He died due to a blood clot that happened while he was on duty.
I never claimed the women’s March storming of the capital were out for blood.
Ashli Babbitt was killed by law enforcement. If law enforcement was not deployed it’s not clear there would have been any deaths. If law enforcement were deployed on the women’s March Storming of the capital, maybe they would have injured or killed protestors as well.
But regardless, the actions of the maga protestors did not directly cause the death of anyone. Doesn’t matter what you want to assume about their guns, you can’t deny that.
Your original question was whether OP was scared of the Women’s March murdering them. The implication is that by some important metric, the sit in was indistinguishable from the terrorist attack on Wednesday. You haven’t provided any evidence for that, other than telling me that it’s bad faith to presume violent intent behind the armed people scaling walls and breaking down doors.
We haven’t even mentioned that many of the invaders came bearing Nazi symbols and/or were members of known violent groups like the Proud Boys. I suppose that it’s unfair to presume that someone wearing a 6MWE shirt isn’t coming to be peaceful?
Obviously it’s impossible to prove conclusively whether or not there would have been deaths without law enforcement. But there are multiple accounts of them assaulting journalists. What do you think they would have done had they made it to the floor of the Senate without police there?
What, exactly, do you think the zip ties were for?
I will concede that a medical examiner has not confirmed the officer’s cause of death. But signs point to him being killed by one of the terrorists, so I’ll continue to describe it as murder until evidence arises to the contrary.
> Your original question was whether OP was scared of the Women’s March murdering them.
Yes the point of the question was to tease out what concrete differences there were between the two to justify fear of murder in the second case. It seems like his fear is more based on narrative and assumption of bad faith than any direct evidence of intent to “take the capital” violently. The violence was perpetrated against the protestors, not by them.
> But signs point to him being killed by one of the terrorists, so I’ll continue to describe it as murder until evidence arises to the contrary.
You should assume innocence until proof of wrongdoing. Anything else is illiberal.
Just because two groups have opposing political aims doesn't mean they're equivalent. One attempted to take our nation's capital by force, the other attempted a sit in.
Show me literally one single source that indicates the Women's March people were out for blood. Were there any casualties? Injuries? Was there even any fighting?
Your fact is false, by the way. The terrorists murdered a Capitol Police officer. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/capitol-police-offic...