Soldier stands besides his M60 machine gun, which is mounted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to deter rioters from entering the building during the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination riots in Washington D.C. (April 1968) [800 x 1157]
I know what people are gonna comment under here, and I was considering it too, but just don’t.
goodpeopleofMoronica
It’s almost as if they were ordered to protect the capitol maybe? IDK. Kind of a risky assumption.
apbadogs
Did he have bullets?
RangerDedra
When you look at photos like this & photos of disabled protesters being forcefully removed, makes you think about how easily the cops let those terrorists in to trash the place. What a disgrace.
Killfile
As we consider images like these, remember: never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Yes, it is possible that the Cap Hill Police were "in on it" and deliberately under-staffed, under-prepared, and then allowed the rioters access to the building.
But it’s also just as possible, and frankly more likely, that they fell victim to some bad assumptions: namely that a bunch of Blue Lives Matter folks wouldn’t dare try to cross a police barrier.
So they only prepared for a peaceful protest despite warnings to the contrary. Now, that’s not seditious, but it is dumb as hell.
And once their positions were over-run, they basically had two choices right? Deploy lethal force in small pockets, get over-run, and turn the entire thing into a bloody insurrection or fall back and try to make nice with Y’all Queda in the hopes that they’d go away quietly.
That doesn’t excuse their failure and foolishness and it’s totally appropirate that the chief of the Cap Hill Police as well as the Senate and House Sgt at Arms have been asked to resign. But it’s important that we not jump at shadows right now.
It’s way more likely that these people just screwed up than it is that they were part of a seditious conspiracy to hold Congress hostage or something.
ZMAC698
I really wonder how people would’ve felt if they just unloaded on them though…like that would look fucking terrible imo. Just a lose lose situation.
AFXC1
Meanwhile fast forward to today and they literally did nothing to stop these people.
FlyingLap
The poor working class ordered to kill their own, yet again.
Lukieblue
That break in at the capitol was totally planned
gsa41
It is horrible to loose one life over this but I can’t imagine doing such a thing at the capital and because a Micky mouse president is lying to the country
![Soldier stands besides his M60 machine gun, which is mounted on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to deter rioters from entering the building during the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination riots in Washington D.C. (April 1968) [800 x 1157]](https://i.redd.it/r149t89d23a61.png)
Captain_McNugget
I know what people are gonna comment under here, and I was considering it too, but just don’t.
goodpeopleofMoronica
It’s almost as if they were ordered to protect the capitol maybe? IDK. Kind of a risky assumption.
apbadogs
Did he have bullets?
RangerDedra
When you look at photos like this & photos of disabled protesters being forcefully removed, makes you think about how easily the cops let those terrorists in to trash the place. What a disgrace.
Killfile
As we consider images like these, remember: never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Yes, it is possible that the Cap Hill Police were "in on it" and deliberately under-staffed, under-prepared, and then allowed the rioters access to the building.
But it’s also just as possible, and frankly more likely, that they fell victim to some bad assumptions: namely that a bunch of Blue Lives Matter folks wouldn’t dare try to cross a police barrier.
So they only prepared for a peaceful protest despite warnings to the contrary. Now, that’s not seditious, but it is dumb as hell.
And once their positions were over-run, they basically had two choices right? Deploy lethal force in small pockets, get over-run, and turn the entire thing into a bloody insurrection or fall back and try to make nice with Y’all Queda in the hopes that they’d go away quietly.
That doesn’t excuse their failure and foolishness and it’s totally appropirate that the chief of the Cap Hill Police as well as the Senate and House Sgt at Arms have been asked to resign. But it’s important that we not jump at shadows right now.
It’s way more likely that these people just screwed up than it is that they were part of a seditious conspiracy to hold Congress hostage or something.
ZMAC698
I really wonder how people would’ve felt if they just unloaded on them though…like that would look fucking terrible imo. Just a lose lose situation.
AFXC1
Meanwhile fast forward to today and they literally did nothing to stop these people.
FlyingLap
The poor working class ordered to kill their own, yet again.
Lukieblue
That break in at the capitol was totally planned
gsa41
It is horrible to loose one life over this but I can’t imagine doing such a thing at the capital and because a Micky mouse president is lying to the country