Armed extremists brought guns at the capitol riot
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Armed extremists seeking to undermine our democratic institutions are an ongoing problem. January 6, 2021, Trump supporters and white supremacists, used guns to damage and inciting intimidation using violence in increasingly open ways, including taking advantage of weak state gun laws to brandish weapons at anti-government protests, to intimidate peaceful protests for racial justice, and in plans and actions to kill. An analysis of data collected by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project and the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University shows at least 100 instances of armed protesters and incidents involving guns at protests in state capitals from May 2020 through mid-January 2021. These events were precursors to the attack on the U.S. Capitol and foreshadow a possible violent escalation in the future.Former President Trump has emboldened extremists and given them and their conspiracy theories a place in the political mainstream. But far right armed extremism did not start with Trump, his response to Charlottesville, or his call from the debate stage for the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by.” Nor will it end now that he has left office. In fact, for decades, the National Rifle Association and the broader gun lobby has enabled access to guns by anti-government and white supremacist extremists through their advocacy against common-sense gun laws, while simultaneously harnessing the extremists’ fixation on guns and violent response to perceived government overreach. In doing so, the gun lobby has amplified radicalizing messaging to new and broader audiences. The gun lobby’s rhetorical, political, and sometimes organizational overlap with the extreme right from the militia movement of the 1990s to the Oath Keepers that stormed the Capitol has yielded dangerous and, at times, catastrophic results. The arrest of several insurrectionists on weapons charges and the presence of gun rights extremism at the storming of the U.S.
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