LogFAQs > #940218992

ninja_lootz posted...

Yeah, no.

Compelling argument, but I can't say I'm convinced.

Monopoman posted...

Oh man you couldn't be more wrong if you tried, 98% of the people protesting aren't rioting at all you act like everyone protesting is out there to either break shit or steal shit.

That's precisely the opposite of what I said.

WhiskeyDisk posted...

You might want to read up on "Ruby Ridge".

Yes, there is precedent for holding the government accountable for use of unnecessary lethal force, but the scale of this is large enough that I strongly suspect they'd be able to get out of such accountability (or at least think they could and therefore try killing a bunch of people anyway). Regardless of who would end up in which prisons after the dust settled, protesters being armed is just going to end up in a whole lot of people being killed.

Smarkil posted...

Because they didn't do anything illegal. There's no law in Michigan that prevents open carrying and nothing that prevents them from carrying in the Capitol building. And the capitol building is open to the public. There was functionally nothing different about them 'invading' the capitol building anymore than a public park. Like it or not, that's the law round those parts.

And whatever the legal technicalities, there's no case to be made that they weren't threatening violence to effect political change. That was objectively terrorism, legal or otherwise.

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