Two National Guardsmen were just shot near the White House in Washington D.C.

[ArnoldLayne]

[senseandsensibility]

1. Suspect in custody

according to CNN.

[doc03]

2. Will that be used to send in the Marines and

declare an insurrection.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

37. OFC that dope will... and there will be more blood on his tiny hands!!

[ArnoldLayne]

3. I hope not

[Melon]

10. Vids are up all over now.

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=Ed-0S1KW28f-T2V7fFLv2Q

Hearing 2 possible down very serious.

[NoSheep]

29. guy looks like he's just learning how to use that big gun

[hlthe2b]

4. Any word on their condition?

[mvd]

5. They say critical

Hope they are ok. They should not have been sent there.

[hlthe2b]

7. Ahhh.. I hope they recover fully. How tragic given they were deployed as a political stunt...

And not to turn this to the latter too much, but it is certainly possible that some unhinged person might have used that as motivation for this horrible crime.

[obamanut2012]

18. Dead

[hlthe2b]

24. Oh, my! Both of them?

How devastating to be "exploited to death" --literally.

[obamanut2012]

27. Yes, the WV Gov confirmed -- they were WV NG

I unfortunately saw one of the photos of one of the NG earlier -- they were black, maybe a woman, with a head wound.

[hlthe2b]

31. Let me guess.. the assailant was white?

Obviously, murder is murder, but... damn.

I have family members who suffered horrible family deaths like this from violence on Christmas many years ago. They NEVER get over it. We all face tragedies, but when it is at the hands of someone else, it is so amplified. And on Thanksgiving or other major holidays, well, that means that those future holidays will never/can never really be celebrated.

For those left behind... I am so sorry...

[ArnoldLayne]

6. Both in critical condition.

[obamanut2012]

19. They ahve died

[CentralMass]

30. 😞

[yaesu]

8. The federal judge that ruled the deployment illegal, but put the ruling on hold for 21 days probably should have don it

without the hold, free citizens do not like living in a police state so shit happens which is what the putin controlled fascist state wants.

[TommyT139]

9. Illegal deployment.

The only crime is Trump's.

[TheProle]

11. "The only crime is Trump's."

Really?

[Melon]

12. Actually shooting two guardsmen who are doing their job is a crime....

[yaesu]

13. I have no doubt its a false flag to get his insurrection act in place. nt

[Melon]

23. Get outside and touch some grass.

There are criminals and unhinged people in every city. They have now both died. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s a crime and a tragedy to both families. It does nothing to help prove the city is safe.

[sheshe2]

40. I would not put it past them.

[TommyT139]

15. Nope

They don't belong on the streets.

It's unfortunate that they died - and the fault is Trump's and the traitors who support him.

[yorkster]

14. You might want to remove the kick-ass donkey.

Looks a bit celebratory...

[DFW]

16. It was bound to happen sooner or later, and it was the Republicans who pushed for more liberal gun laws in DC

The DC city government wanted firearm restrictions, but the Republicans pushed through measure liberalizing gun ownership. Their argument, as always, was that the more people that have guns, the better protected they are.

I'd say they have their shining example for why that is the opposite of what is true, not that any arguments will help the two guys who were shot.

It's not a lengthy philosophical discussion:
1.)They should not have been shot, and 2.) Had they not been there, they wouldn't have been shot.

plus: 1.) It's not the fault of whoever sent them there that they were shot, and
2.) It IS the fault of whoever sent them there that they were there in the first place.

[tavernier]

32. You give guns out to people like they are M & Ms

and then proceed to run the country like Tombstone. What a shock that someone got killed.

[obamanut2012]

17. They ahve both died of their wounds

[yorkster]

20. Per WV Governor the 2 guardsmen have died.

Seen on ms now and cnn.

[sheshe2]

34. MSNBC has walked that back.

The cyron now says "Shot" not "Killed".

[yorkster]

35. Yes.both CNN and MS NOW now say shot.

Thx. Weird.

[sheshe2]

38. The Governor was saying it as well.

You are welcome, yorkster.

They all need to stop jumping the gun and wait for the facts.

[yorkster]

39. Right you are.

[ForgedCrank]

21. This is

horrible and evil.
The mood needs to change, people have lost their damned minds. Now 2 MORE young men are now dead and their parents saw it happen the day before Thanksgiving.

[Melon]

25. I believe a man and a woman guardsman.

[ForgedCrank]

26. That is

absolutely horrible man. I'm so angry right now I just want to scream. WTH is wrong with people?

[obamanut2012]

28. Yup, I accidentally saw a terrible photo, and one of them looked like a black woman

[BBbats]

22. Idiots Are Already Posting On Facebook..............

Like they did with Charlie Kirk.
"Are you happy now Dem Libtards!"
Just itchng to blame & Trump is just itching to declare the Insurrection Act.
Happy Thanksgiving!

[DET]

33. Confusing

Now the WV Governor is saying that the condition of the victims is unclear (or words to that effect). This could be anything - gang violence (unlikely in that area), targeted shooting of guardsmen, false flag,…

[doc03]

36. Trump will come out with something to

inflame the violence more.