I am old enough to remember the TV images and sounds of violence in Beirut and the fighting on the streets during the time of the IRA. The storming of the capit

I am old enough to remember the TV images and sounds of violence in Beirut and the fighting on the streets during the time of the IRA. The storming of the capital seems like incorrect framing of what looked a lot like a desperate attempt to get attention. These are 2nd amendment types, uncolleged, who all forgot to bring their assault rifles, riot gear and bomb-making equipment to a violent takeover of the US capitol. There weren’t even videos of burning cars or distant gunshots. To call something that looked more like a college sit-in an “armed insurrection” sounds like framing the pitiful as dangerous and unstable, leading to false imprisonments.