I guess you would support passing Patriot Act 2.0 as the proper response.
They'll say we need it, in order to prevent future riots.
No I would not.
I would say that you need to prosecute people that break the law. Existing laws are sufficient, they just need to be enforced.
In particular, people that murder police officers who are trying to do their job need to face the full force of the law.
And politicians that tell that crowd an hour previously that "“We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore" bear responsibility for whipping up and inciting the crowd.
A direct quote from Trump.
Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. … We are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give — the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote, but we are going to try — give our Republicans, the weak ones, because the strong ones don’t need any of our help, we’re try — going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.”
Now I know all the Trump apologists on this thread are going to say that he didn't incite violence and that he didn't mean it. But in your hearts you know he wanted a riot and you know that he deliberately held back the National Guard and prevented the brave officers on the hill from getting the support they so desperately needed.
This was an attempted militia coup, and we are all very lucky that it failed. Some might think that a rioting crowd erecting a gallows is just a prank, but that's not how others see it. The fact that a number of rioters were carrying large packages of zip tie restraints indicates they intended to use them.
