Lawmakers are still exiting the chamber as a throng of bodies rushes towards the door. The nation watches on TV as someone with a deadly serious job waits on th

Lawmakers are still exiting the chamber as a throng of bodies rushes towards the door. The nation watches on TV as someone with a deadly serious job waits on the other side to start shooting in defense of the lawmakers if the protesters break in. These protesters already know somewhere in their mind that they've committed a crime that will land them in prison. Should they gain tactical control of the chamber, especially after losing lives in doing so, especially before all the lawmakers were out... I agree that hostages would have been taken. It does not take a democratic vote for a mob to take hostages. But I'm not judging -- they were just people, doing pretty much what I suspect you or I would do if we could contrive a comparable set of circumstances.