Who said anything about firing on crowds of civilians? That would be an atrocity.

These were seditious, treasonous Insurrectionists, attempting do LITERALLY DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY! Defending against that sort of domestic terrorism is the very least that I expect the Capitol Police to do.

The entire reason they felt comfortable actually assaulting the Capitol is because they were counting on COWARDLY people like you putting POLITENESS ahead of our Democracy. You would have let them destroy our democracy before fighting back, because it would be unseemly.

Your cowardice, and the cowardice of the Democratic Party is why so many people still support MAGA - because they know if America is truly threatened, Democrats aren't courageous enough to fight back, and they proved it over and over during the Biden administration. If Dems won't protect the nation, they won't protect their people.

Smug, polite liberals like you are the reason MAGA is in control.