[StanislavPetrov]

>The 'without weapons' implies it wasn't violent

There is no such implication at all. "Without weapons" means "without weapons". The vast majority of people at that riot were gun owners, and none of them were armed or fired a shot. I can assure you, people who own guns and are committed to violently overthrowing the government bring those guns and shoot them. For evidence see any of the numerous coups that occur in countries around the world.

[Forgeties79]

That’s a lot of talk about guns considering - which you pointed out - there weren’t guns (that we know of) used by the insurrectionists.

Do you acknowledge it was violent?

[StanislavPetrov]

Of course it was violent, all riots are violent by definition. It is absurd hyperbole to call this an insurrection just like it would have been absurd to call the far more violent riots during the Trump inauguration an insurrection.

[Forgeties79]

I was personally at trump’s inauguration filming the protests and I can assure you they were not nearly as destructive as the January 6th insurrectionists trying to overturn an election. A few smashed windows and some flipped over trashcans is not a mob attacking the capitol chanting “HANG MIKE PENCE.”