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Nevilledog

(51,094 posts)
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 12:46 AM Feb 2021

"...enough live ammunition to shoot every member of Congress five times."



Tweet text:
Shannon Watts
@shannonrwatts
"This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection. How many firearms were confiscated? How many shots were fired?” ⁦Wisconsin’s @SenRonJohnson.⁩

Police recovered a dozen guns and enough live ammunition to shoot every member of Congress five times.

Ron Johnson on Jan. 6 Capitol attack: 'This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me'
"This didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me," Johnson said in a radio interview Monday.
jsonline.com
8:38 PM · Feb 15, 2021


https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/15/ron-johnson-questions-whether-armed-insurrection-occurred-capitol/6753376002/


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"...enough live ammunition to shoot every member of Congress five times." (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2021 OP
It's a good thing DC has restrictive gun toting laws. The last thing a gun-humping Hoyt Feb 2021 #1
We will never know how many guns were in the cars or on the busses bottomofthehill Feb 2021 #3
I'm sure there were tons of guns Nevilledog Feb 2021 #4
Plus pipe bombs, plus home made napalm bottomofthehill Feb 2021 #2
I noticed in the videos that a lot of people notinkansas Feb 2021 #5
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. It's a good thing DC has restrictive gun toting laws. The last thing a gun-humping
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 12:53 AM
Feb 2021

trump lover wants is to loose their beloved gunz. Those MFers would have shown up with gunz, otherwise.

Nevilledog

(51,094 posts)
4. I'm sure there were tons of guns
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 01:06 AM
Feb 2021

Remember, the majority of the insurrectionists just walked away.

bottomofthehill

(8,329 posts)
2. Plus pipe bombs, plus home made napalm
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 12:57 AM
Feb 2021

Plus clubs, spears, knives, bear spray, baseball bats, a gallows, bartering rams, body armor, ballistic helmets, battle flags.......

Asshole, get your head out of trumps ass. This was an armed insurrection.

notinkansas

(1,096 posts)
5. I noticed in the videos that a lot of people
Tue Feb 16, 2021, 02:24 AM
Feb 2021

were carrying backpacks. I doubt that the contents were picnic lunches.

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