They had armed agents protecting them in a secure room, so I doubt they were in much danger.
In 1997 I was working in a small branch office in the first desk position about 15 feet away from the front door. We had just opened so the glass door was unlocked.
I was on the phone with a client when there was a blast that I instantly knew was both barrels of a shotgun.
By the grace of God, the deranged person that had the shotgun did not enter the office but got into his van and fled.
We identified him but they didn’t catch him until a week later. Our employer partially boarded up the front door and we stayed open for business never closing for a minute. We all breathed easier after he was caught.
We’re just lucky there wasn’t a massacre of these largely unarmed protestors, at least those who actually were Trump supporters. Things would be in a very bad state right now if they had shot dozens rather than just one unarmed protestor.
The media and left-wing politicians are going to an extreme that is ludicrous and casts considerable doubt on their abilities to do the important jobs they have. This is why Donald Trump left a very cushy life to take on this task, to try to show the country that there was a better way, in many ways like a return to the politics of a better and bygone age.
Who wouldn’t prefer to have Eisenhower and Nixon being sworn in on the 20th? Practical men who knew how to get important things done and didn’t care about your gender or your race all that much. Instead we are a week away from handing the country over to a mental defective and a troubled feminist bully, and already in the tent is the biggest hypocrite of modern times, and a supporting cast of weasels and snake oil salesmen.
There may be half a dozen decent Senators and a hundred or so reliable congressmen. Those aren’t very good odds going into a communist revolution in slow motion.
The isolation and no doubt the soon to come harassment of a fine man, Donald Trump, is both sickening and infuriating. It is the career criminals who survived the election that need to be impeached.
As for AOC, she is a lightweight idiot way out of her depth. When people like that are given power, they abuse it and bad things happen. I would imagine even the likes of Biden and Pelosi know the limitations of this odious loudmouth. However they are hardly much better, just a little more practiced at the arts of saying things in disguise.