> These words confer explosions, gunfire, and mass loss of life There were bombs planted at both Democratic and Republican party headquarters. One man was arre

> These words confer explosions, gunfire, and mass loss of life There were bombs planted at both Democratic and Republican party headquarters. One man was arrested with a pickup truck full of napalm. At least some subset of the Capitol rioters absolutely intended to cause "explosions, gunfire, and mass loss of life". I think you're being dishonest pretending this was only a bunch of goons posing for instagram. This is similar to the way people remember Columbine as a school shooting, but the two murderers actually built a large number of IEDs including propane tank bombs. If they hadn't been such incompetent bomb-builders, hundreds would have died and the event would be remembered as a bombing akin to Oklahoma City instead of mere mass-shooting.