Because they are LARPers and the harder you push them, the more they show their true colors. They are a bunch of fake insurrectionists. This is the thing. You really, really have to have no choice with your back against the wall to want to throw your body against bullets. I say "guys" because it's mostly guys that like to dress up in paramilitary uniforms and pretend they are hot shit. January 6th was an unplanned mob that got out of control. Nothing more, nothing less. They had no chance of succeeding. Eventually the military and police would rain down on them and take the capital back which is what happened.