READY, AIM....

The reason the assault on the Capitol was a success for the rioters was that that very few were killed. We allowed them to destroy our treasured building, soil it with their presence, steal its treasures and walk safely out its broken doors. One woman was shot crawling though a window with a gun. There should have been dozens of dead marauders lying on the steps, in the rotunda, throughout the Capitol. Justice should have swift and deadly or at least debilitating.  That would have discouraged any further attempts at insurrection. These are not skilled warriors, just misguided morons who swore allegiance to a man even more ignorant than them. Unfortunately, we are too gentle a nation, even when under siege. We are not killers, even when we should be. So these goons, and traitors, are comfortably home admiring themselves on television, seeing how easily they drifted through the Capitol, causes excessive vandalism and left as easily as invited guests. If there is a repeat of this behavior, I hope the National Guard or whomever is guarding is given the order to shoot. Hopefully they are good marksmen who can deliver a crippling shot to a leg, a debilitating shot to a shoulder, but a shot nonetheless that shows we mean business and will not allow thugs to deface and destroy our property, our democracy.