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I am a random nobody and I was able to waltz in to my congresswoman's office. Obviously I wasn't digging through the desk drawers, but it's not like I was close

• moate 6y ago
  This is not similar to having 4 ours of unfettered access during a riot. They literally were digging in desk drawers, using the phone, leaving threats, carving hate speech into wooden doors, etc. I once saw a citizen with a 6-shooter strapped to his hip at a Colorado county clerk's office peacefully fill out some paperwork for 5 minutes. What does this story tell us about what rioters did or didn't do while tearing up the capital building?
  • defen 6y ago
    > I once saw a citizen with a 6-shooter strapped to his hip at a Colorado county clerk's office peacefully fill out some paperwork for 5 minutes. What does this story tell us about what rioters did or didn't do while tearing up the capital building? 1 minute of Googling tells me that Colorado is an open-carry state, and there is no specific exclusion for county offices, so unless this was in Denver or another municipality that prohibits open carry I don't see the relevance of your story to what happened in the Capitol.
    • kthxbye123 6y ago
      That's his point. There's no comparison between entering the public part of an office during business hours and what happened yesterday.