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Isn't it very unusual that four capital building guards committed suicide after the Jan 6 riots?

A deeply traumatic event to be sure, but I don't think we even see trends like that in urban riots or terrorist attacks. What was behind it? Disillusionment with the country?
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Sure seems that way, but this kind of an event was pretty unprecedented and "unusual" to begin with.

I'm not sure disillusionment with the country is really enough to describe what happened, and what's continuing to happen, and law enforcement is really facing this problem harder than most.

We can go back and forth on numbers, but the bottom line is that a substantial portion on American voters are really supportive of going to extraordinary means, including violence, and it played out nastily on 1/6.

I don't think it's over either, and suspect that the next couple of years are going to be hard on law enforcement.