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The far left (Manchester) Guardian is the UK's most left wing newspaper. It is no surprise that they parrot the absurd claims of the partisan Democrat prosecutors.

Anyone who has ever been in the military knows that you do not leave your guns back at camp when you go out on patrol and only go back to get them if encounter hostile forces. The rioters knew there would be armed police at the Capitol and if they intended to use them for an "insurrection" they would have taken them with them. They did NOT.

There is a better case to be made that the Antifa / BLM riots in the summer of 2020, especially the sustained seige of the White House, was actually an insurrection. Pelosi is even on videotape encouraging it.

All of us probably know people who regularly carry guns, including when they travel. I know a couple of elected officials who do so. Being a type of militia group, it is not unusual that the Oathkeepers kept their guns with them when travelling. The fact that they left them to be looked after at the hotel in Virginia instead of taking them to the Capitol shows that there was no intent to use them in any way at the Capitol. While Virginia still respects the 2nd Amendment, the gun laws of DC are somewhere between the gun laws of Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany, and the fact that the Oathkeepers obeyed those very severe gun laws again shows that there was no intent at a "coup".

Even with its biases, the Guardian still has more residual journalistm than the propaganda media in the US like NBC. One does not get news in the MSM, they get propaganda from a partisan perspective, and polls show that a majority of Americans understand that.

Commented: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 7:59 am By: John Steed

Big Bob, i notice the main recommendations about the use of marijuana are from users.

The medical benefits of marijuana use have all been proved to be duplicated by other approved drugs.

The legal use of marijuana is the gateway to the use more horrible drugs

As for keeping the legaluse under strict control, Dovtors jus cannon say "no".

Commented: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 7:00 am By: Hood Richardson

Mike Pence is truly a good man, a smart man, a fine legislator, a true team player. On this paramount occasion, however, he may have picked the wrong team.

In hindsight, VP Pence would have been wise to work within a group of US senators to delay the certification of this terribly flawed election.

Commented: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 6:25 am By: Stan Deatherage

What are you saying?

Democratic Socialists acting as a herded group - a baying begotten cry for Institutional Stupidity - would cheat, lie and act corruptly, as that baying herd, to use the rarest of objects in precious stewardship, this singular blue jewel of a planet bequeathed to US by the one true God as a political cudgel to subdue the masses into Socialism /Globalism, ultimate corruption.

"Say it ain't so." The Democratic Socialists would never do that ... would they?

Commented: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 5:31 am By: Stan Deatherage

www.theguardian.com

I will give you credit for calling them rioters, as opposed to tourists. Baby steps!

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 10:01 pm By: Big Bob

There is no longer equal justice under the law in the United States.

Commented: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 12:47 am By: Charles Hickman

Biden is the cause for a good majority of the problems we are encountering. We need Trump to get back into office and save us while we still have a country to save...

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 5:39 pm By: Cucuy

There he goes again! Little Bobbie constantly misuses the word "true" to mean "consistent with the narrative of the American left". The two are not the same, and, indeed, often opposites. The issue here is whether there were any guns at the January 6 Capitol riot possessed by rioters, and the factual answer is NO.

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 5:37 pm By: John Steed

I figured you couldn’t do it. It’s ok. Is what it is. People can make up their own minds.
Do I think ever person who participated planned to commit criminal acts? No. But many did. And some brought guns. The rest of geniuses probably got caught up in the moment.
No too smart.

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 4:15 pm By: Big Bob

Not a single gun was seized from the rioters on Capitol Hill. Not one. If there was an intent to overthrow the government, there would have been. There is not even any testimony of any of the rioters being armed during the riot.

If someone travels with a gun for protection, Virginia still has decent gun rights, but DC has draconian gun laws. Of course, they would leave their gun in Virginia and not violate DC's gun laws. This is just more evidence that this was not an "insurrection" because if it was those guns would not have been left in Virginia, but taken to the Capitol. They weren't.

You continue to fail to show any evidence of anyone being armed at the Capitol riot.

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 2:32 pm By: Rino Hunter

Little Bobbie, your side's "science" on climate lacks credibility. Climategate exsposed them as a bunch of manipulative hucksters. They are batting ZERO on their dire predictions, dozens of which have passed the time some calamity was supposed to happen and NONE of them have come true or even close. Climate alarmism is Chicklen Little on steroids.

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 12:05 pm By: John Steed

Instead of subsidizing these moochers, they ought to be given a plane ticket home. American taxpayers should not be responsible for them. Democrats who are responsible for this need to be voted out of office. President Trump has said when he returns to the White House, he will start a massive deportation program like Eisenhower's Operation Wetback.

Commented: Saturday, November 18th, 2023 @ 11:10 am By: John Steed