[quote CurlyhairedAssassin]@Miljea "Right to bear arms" No doubt that makes any kind of protest in the US more volatile.[/quote]
Potentially, yes, but at this moment, as we're pretty much live- not so much.
I am frankly shocked at the shock of Amuricans. Their overseas policies have wrought actual, proper anarchy across the globe. Where tens of thousands die, horribly.
Now the wheel-out of talking heads want us to be as outraged as we either were, or should have been at scenes played out across the planet over the past decades.
These people pretty much strolled in. Thus were disarmed of their dudgeon. Then went home.
Musing: maybe, just maybe, this tiny group of unhappy people being allowed to walk into the Capitol thus so distressing the very bedrock of US Democracy, apparently, will make a few Americans consider their own culpability in the world order?
As for the global reaction?
All a bit embarrassed.