[verzali]

That's an extremely naive statement. Massacres of politicans are rarely followed by everything going calmly back to normal, it's much more likely to be followed by more violence, a crackdown on freedoms and liberties and a slide away from democracy.

[belorn]

> Massacres of politicans are rarely followed by everything going calmly back to normal

That is correct. Massacres of politicans are generally followed by military factions taking control of a country, also generally a military faction that participated in the massacre. Those are coups.

When we have massacre of politicians like the 2011 Norway attacks, we call it a domestic terrorism and throw the guilty into jail, and then everything goes mostly calmly back to normal. The risk that those actually succeed in changing the government of a democracy is thankfully very slim. Obviously they are still very horrible acts.

[mlindner]

How is it naive? Americans have allegiance to the Constitution, not to whoever happens to be sitting in the seat of government. This is foundational to thinking of your average American.

And yeah there would probably be some nation-wide violence in response and some laws passed that would push the limits of what the Supreme Court would allow.

It doesn't mean that people would follow the idiots who did the shooting.

[tga_d]

Polling says ~70% of Republicans, or over one third of all Americans, think the 2020 election was stolen.[0] That's a lot of people who disagree over what "allegiance to the constitution" means.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/02/jan-6-pol...