Posted on 12/23/2022 1:56:17 PM PST by Dahoser
At least 28,000 supporters of President Donald Trump flocked to the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021 — many of them carrying weaponry ranging from firearms to brass knuckles to screwdrivers, the House select committee investigating the events of that day revealed in its final report.
The 814-page document, released late Thursday, draws the previously unreported crowd figure from data from Secret Service magnetometers stationed at Trump’s pre-riot speech on the Ellipse near the White House — though hundreds of the most hardcore rioters skipped the rally and went directly to the Capitol.
The committee of seven Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans voted Monday to ask the Justice Department to charge the 76-year-old former president with crimes including inciting an insurrection — and the report suggests many attendees were indeed ready for violence.
Secret Service confiscated a haul of weapons from the 28,000 spectators who did pass through the magnetometers: 242 cannisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items like scissors, needles, or screwdrivers,” the report says.
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Nobody will stop this. Economic collapse that I see coming may make it worse. Secession is the best option.
I’ve carried the same pocketknife since 1962.
Funny... the list of ‘weapons’ seems mostly of a defensive nature. Pepper spray and brass knuckles... knives, bats... people expecting trouble it more seems like, not necessarily wanting to start it.
Back in the 70s, I suspected something wasn’t right. I thought we were eventually going to have a civil war. This was in the 70s. We didn’t have all the information available back then, that we do now. That is one reason I stayed in the military, because I figured if we were going to have a civil war, the military would probably be a safe place to be. World communism is on the move.
“Secret Service confiscated a haul of weapons from the 28,000 spectators who did pass through the magnetometers: 242 cannisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items like scissors, needles, or screwdrivers,” the report says.”
Not one gun? What would they get at a BLM rally?
These fools think a group could overthrow the government with “242 cannisters of pepper spray, 269 knives or blades, 18 brass knuckles, 18 tasers, 6 pieces of body armor, 3 gas masks, 30 batons or blunt instruments, and 17 miscellaneous items like scissors, needles, or screwdrivers”?
whahahaha
I accidently boarded an airplane a few years ago with my pocket knife. I was so used to carrying it, that I forgot it was with me...
Thankfully TSA or whoever they are did not pay attention to the knife and go all drama queen on me.
They forgot to include the pair of buffalo horns in their count.
atlatl
LOL I haven’t seen that word in decades.
Groucho Marx (Rufus T. Firefly in "Duck Soup") : Maybe you can suggest something. As a matter of fact, you do suggest something. To me you suggest a baboon.
If you had a pocket knife or a soda straw or a toothpick or a pair of chopsticks, you would have been armed enough to take over the country. So funny. Only a couple of handguns would easily hold back a mob of toothpick and soda straw wielding patriots.
It depends on whether or not it was Liz Cheney asking…
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I think if you searched the pockets of 28,000 random Americans, significantly more than 1% would have pepper spray or knives. I'm guessing at least half would have pocket knives, and maybe 15-25% would have pepper spray on their keychains.
Because they can?🤔
That’s affirmative.
No guns?
I do admit I was carrying.
Two pocket knives.
And my canon camera.
Frigging liars, AKA Demonicrats.
Not 1 gun. Imagine that.
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