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Opening fire and killing many of the Jan 6th idiots might have, ironically, won the day for their "cause". It might have made the dead protesters martyrs and reversed the lesson learned from that day. Honestly, I think there is a small chance that democracy might have died that day (Trump would have been reinstated) if it turned into a bloodbath given that the protestors might have ended up with public emotion on their side. Probably not, but...it would have been even uglier than it was.

As events were unfolding I was honestly hoping the idiots would succeed in burning down a wing of the Capitol so long as there was no loss of life. The visual of a burned out Capitol would have been a permanent reminder of how deluded these people were and why we absolutely cannot tolerate their authoritarian crap. We can rebuild a building. Rebuilding a democracy is much harder.

Long story short: props to the capital police for their restraint in an impossible scenario. America needed to see who those people really were on a big stage, and that was it. Or at least I hope that was it...