That's YOUR criterion, certainly not the view of the cops who had to fend off improvised weaponry that inflicted many injuries.
And then there is intent. WTF were they doing erecting a gallows and chanting 'hang Mike Pence'?
The Russian Army in WWII and the Chicom army in Korea didn't always have sufficient small arms for everyone of their soldiers engaging in a human wave attack.
Did the defenders care that some of the attackers were instructed to pick a weapon off a fallen comrade?