You know, here's part of what is wrong with this country. The leaders like to use scary words to describe something (usually in a hyperbolic way), and their followers like to echo those scary thoughts to point to how bad the other side is. And, it happens on both sides, both are guilty of it.
As far as this being an "insurrection"? No. They were protesting the abortion law, they weren't trying to overthrow their state government. They were simply saying that they didn't like what their government did, not calling for them to be thrown out and replaced. For all of you who don't know what an insurrection is, here is the definition from the Cambridge English Dictionary (a usually trusted source of the meaning of words)..............
1. an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and…
dictionary.cambridge.org
insurrection
noun
[ C or U ]
US
/ˌɪn.sɚˈek.ʃən/ UK
/ˌɪn.sərˈek.ʃən/
an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
armed insurrection
Synonyms
rebellion
revolt
rising
uprising
If they had called for getting rid of those currently in office and being replaced with other people because of this issue, then yeah, it would have been an insurrection. But, they didn't, they were simply protesting (even though it was a bit towards the violent side as it had to be broken up by police) the way that the vote had gone by elected officials. They didn't call for them to be thrown out and replaced.
Another word that was thrown around was "hostage". No, this wasn't a hostage situation, as the police had surrounded the capitol to keep the politicians safe, and didn't let them out for their own safety, as the protesters might have caused them harm if they had left on their own. Hostages are taken by the people committing the crime, not the police. In this case, I would call it more "protective custody" than a hostage situation.
And yeah, while the crowd DID threaten to break windows and gain entry into the building, they didn't, as the police prevented it. To equate this to what happened on Jan 6th is incorrect. On Jan 6th, things were broken and the building was breached, in this case, it wasn't. On Jan 6th, they were calling for the government to be replaced, in this case, they weren't, they were protesting the abortion vote, not calling for replacing elected officials. None of the protesters took any of the elected officials and held them hostage, police surrounded the building and kept the politicians in protective custody. On Jan 6th, they actually stormed the building and tried to get to the politicians, threatening to hang Pence and others, but the police protected them from being taken. In both cases, nobody was hostage, just in protective custody.
Calling this an insurrection is incorrect and also stupid.
