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Here is another instance of a gun-free crime zone. Just like the robberies and sexual assault that happened on the Federal Mall once the BGs figured out that tourists made dandy unarmed victims. Remember what Eleanor Holmes (DC's congressional Delegate who insists on calling herself "Congresswoman") said then? She was furious that the BGs had broken an unspoken truce on the Mall.
Well at least the nutbar used a rifle, not a handgun. But hey, it is dang muggy today. He HAD to be wearing weather-inappropriate clothing to walk down the street unobserved even with a folding-stock, bullpup, or sawed-off rifle. If I had been working security and saw some guy walk in to the Holocaust Museum - which is a target for 57 different varieties of nutbar - wearing any kind of long garment in this heat my hand would have been on my weapon before he ever saw me and the snap would be undone on the holster. And I would have approached - OH HELL. Who trains these guards?? Whoever it is ought to be fired. Of course, I don't know all the details so this judgment might be premature, but it is hard to see where I might be mistaken.
But it is another soft-target shooting and I guarantee it would not have happened in Israel, where LACs armed wwith Uzis would havemade the coward uneasy and also where the guards would have been trained in spotting threats.
More is coming in about the guy - white supremacist (way to show that whites are superior, jerk.) who served time in prison for attempting to perform a "citizen's arrest" of a Federal Reserve Board guy.:shock: Boy I sure hope it wasn't anyone who has ever posted here. Seriously.
Still haven't heard exactly what kind of weapon it was other than a rifle but I don't think the Brady Bunch will care - by the way the security officer who was shot has died - to them any time hot lead goes flying it is one more reason to ban all firearms. It will be the usual steaming heap of u-know-what. "If these deadly weapons were not available this guard would not have died" blah-de-blah-de-blah; and they are partially right. Because if firearms were not available to him he might just have carried a bomb and killed not just one person but several or even several dozen. If he could get that close with a rifle, just thnk of the equivalent volume of home-made explosive he could have gotten in there. But I wonder if this had happened on Monday if it would have been enough to stampede the sheeple to McAuliffe?
Well I am glad I lately shifted to driving nights, because the 14th Street Bridge is a mess as the Museum is located right after you come off of it, and the police are going to be going over the crime scene with a fine tooth comb. And once you manage to get into DC you will play hell getting out. Just great, another example of "gun free crime zones" that will get national play, with a slant aimed at creating more, and not less, of them. :banghead: