[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/24/us/officer-si...
He died of a clot in an artery. What you are saying is speculative.
>doesn't really sound much better
>sound much better
>sound
This is the problem. It isn't enough that "they made a noose and yelled for Pence to be hung" now it has to be "execution station" or "gallows" which are way different things.
I am not saying that that is OK either, but it is like saying "they had full-automatic rifles and anti-personel granades" when they really had couple of hunting rifles. Still terrifying and fucked up. No need to spread lies.
Surprise! Months later it turns out he had died of natural causes: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/19/988876722/capitol-police-offi...
> Many were seriously armed.
Name the folks inside who were armed.
> It was an attempted coup of a democratic government.
I find it humorous how the same people who say the 2nd Amendment is useless because the US has tanks and nuclear bombs simultaneously believe that we were ->this<- close to having the government overthrown on January 6th without a single shot fired.
That said, left wing extremists did actually seize and hold a section of Seattle for an extended period of time, which would be a more genuine example of a failed state- violent rebels holding territory inside a major city.