It’s already been all over the news, and there’s plenty of horrific video of the incident. 35-year old Ashli Babbitt was shot by a Secret Service member outside of a barricaded door inside the Capitol. It doesn’t appear that any warning shots were fired. From the video, it appears that she stepped up to look inside a broken window, and you can see the SS agent fire several shots. Babbitt immediately falls back and dies.
Her Twitter feed was filled with Lin Wood retweets, as well as Sidney Powell, and many others who claimed, and yet never provided their evidence, of election fraud. If there is any blame to go around, it lands squarely on the heads of Wood and Powell. These two were clearly charlatans, looking to cash in on their deranged conspiracy theories. It is Wood who incited the mob that forced its way into the Capitol, culminating in Babbitt’s death.
From the footage, it doesn’t appear that anyone needed to die at all. What does appear obvious is the presence of an SS agent eager to get his gun off.
And just look at the fallout today. The Trump movement has been dealt a mortal blow by the idiots who bought into Lin Wood’s insane ravings. What a fool, and what a crowd of fools who trusted him.
Violence solves nothing. Argument and persuasion are our only legitimate tools. And they are powerful. Peaceful principled resistance, not mindless mob violence, is the only path to change. Rioting and destruction do nothing except endanger innocent lives and discredit the ideas of the rioters. How could the Trump rioters not have learned that lesson?
