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Two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC

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It's sad that an OP about two National Guard soldiers getting shot, turns political. Let's mourn for these young soldiers who did not deserve what occurred.
 
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You forgot black people
I don't think people get unduly upset when black people shoot other people, especially if those people are also black.
 
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Who ordered this deployment?
Tbh, I think that if the national guard hadn't been deployed, they probably would have just shot at other people. So I don't follow your line of reasoning.
 
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Tbh, I think that if the national guard hadn't been deployed, they probably would have just shot at other people. So I don't follow your line of reasoning.
Except the guy drove across the whole (big) country for this. Seems like a lot of fuss if just any target would do.
 
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Except the guy drove across the whole (big) country for this. Seems like a lot of fuss if just any target would do.
He certainly seems motivated, yes. But do you really believe that someone who decides to gun down two men in broad daylight would have lived the rest of their lives as unassuming citizens had the national guard just not been deployed?
 
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He certainly seems motivated, yes. But do you really believe that someone who decides to gun down two men in broad daylight would have lived the rest of their lives as unassuming citizens had the national guard just not been deployed?
Perhaps the silicon chip inside his head got switched to overload.
 
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He certainly seems motivated, yes. But do you really believe that someone who decides to gun down two men in broad daylight would have lived the rest of their lives as unassuming citizens had the national guard just not been deployed?
From the perps pov, yeah sooner or later something else would have triggered him.

But from the pov of the victims, this "deployment" completely unnecessarily, and possibly illegally, put them into a contentious situation.
 
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From the perps pov, yeah sooner or later something else would have triggered him.

But from the pov of the victims, this "deployment" completely unnecessarily, and possibly illegally, put them into a contentious situation.
Well, somebody had to die, didn't they? The blood must flow to keep the hate machine greased.
 
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Well, somebody had to die, didn't they? The blood must flow to keep the hate machine greased.
Presumably. I wonder if we'll ever get any sense of this guys motives or "thinking".

As for the deployment, overall I think its best policy to avoid adding unnecessary contention to the world. Some unnecessary bad results are likely one way or another. Stress, anger, and division usually have to go somewhere. Tho I'd agree theres no clear causal line here.
 
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So this was out of Trump’s control?
I'm sure he knew nothing about this guy before the shooting, just as Biden didn't know the immigrants that killed someone. Other people turned these into society.
 
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Tbh, I think that if the national guard hadn't been deployed, they probably would have just shot at other people. So I don't follow your line of reasoning.
Maybe. You’re missing my point that the Guard shouldn’t have been there at all this whole time and here we see why. People have been warning for months that this is an improper use of the National Guard. They aren’t trained in law enforcement. They’re mostly trained to respond to disasters and national emergency type situations. Using them like props around the city carries a certain risk and this is one of them. They’ve been needlessly put in danger all for the optics of military occupying our streets.
 
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In order for something to be funny there must be some truth to it. I don’t think you realize how much truth you put into this post
The funny part is what you believe it is true in the statement. ^_^
 
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Presumably. I wonder if we'll ever get any sense of this guys motives or "thinking".
Reportedly, he was angry because his friend, another Afghan forces commander, was denied entry to the US under the same program as him and was later killed by the Taliban.

 

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Then we can both laugh
I think we both should.

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Reportedly, he was angry because his friend, another Afghan forces commander, was denied entry to the US under the same program as him and was later killed by the Taliban.

Thank you for this excellent find.

According to the above article, the assailant drove from the state of Washington across the United States, to Washington DC to carry out this attack.

According to the article cited above, he was deeply troubled by the death of his friend by the Taliban.

His friend had been denied asylum by President Trump.

I'm thinking that this could have been an attempt on the life of POTUS, if that opportunity presented itself.
 
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