This argument is all about perspectives and who one would like to blame. The truth is,
multiple things can be true at the same time.
It does, however, make you wonder how many times "people" would have potentially have acted out had there NOT been proper security in place in other situations. It also makes you wonder how much of the Summer of Love could have been prevented or curtailed had those in charge chosen to put proper security in place. The people who acted improperly and illegally on J6 should be held to those consequences, just like those during the Summer of Love should be (but haven't been). The interesting part for both of them would be how very, very significantly all of those "numbers" would have exponentially dropped had proper security been employed.
one difference, such as the argument I'm engaged in with
@strummingram, involves the matter of placing blame on a moral basis and not a logical and factual one. I believe that a factual analysis needs to occur before any 'blame' is assigned. Strum wants to play the blame game without benefit of proper reasoning, and his mind has subjectively assigned blame to only one factor, just as some want to place the blame only elsewhere. The simple truth is that blame should be spread around to a number of areas, several of which I linked to articles discussing this. As you say, just because you blame one entity, other entities are not necessarily free of a share of the blame.
There was a large amount of intel indicating the distinct possibility of violence that was discovered well before the event, and although there were people trying to make the responsible people aware of the danger, that intel was never reacted to properly. OF COURSE those who came to the rally with the intent to destroy property and threaten the well-being of certain people and who in fact acted on that basis are guilty and should be blamed on their own. But the inexplicable failure to head off that violence with increased security is not something that should go blameless. Nor should verbiage be taken out of context or otherwise truncated in order to artificially indicate a single area of blame. We know for a fact that the dem machine does this routinely and doubled down on their usual effort here.
Ironically, those who want to manipulate the facts to place the blame for this on Trump only duplicate the very atmosphere that provoked the J6 violence.
In summary, give me that crown, dammit.
ETA;
"The truth is, multiple things can be true at the same time." And those things can seem to be contradictory, but they can be true anyway.
