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Opinions | The Capitol riot was about more than guns. But not to the gun-rights faithful. Jennifer Carlson © Katherine Frey/The Washington Post Freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), a supporter of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, walks to a vote in the House at the U.S. Capitol this week. President Trump was impeached Wednesday for inciting an angry mob of his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol in Washington last week in an attempt to disrupt the certification of his election loss. But some Republican lawmakers didn’t see Trump, or the failed insurrection, as the real problem on Jan. 6 instead, they put the terrifying events that day in a different, simpler light. For Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who promised voters she would carry her Glock to work on Capitol Hill, it was an occasion to affirm her support for the Second Amendment. Outraged to find metal detectors installed after the riot, she portentously tweeted, “We were not in need of mo

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