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Two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Perhaps the silicon chip inside his head got switched to overload.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
D.C. National Guard shooting suspect identified as Afghan national who had worked with CIA. Here's what we know.
A 29-year-old Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspected shooter in the ambush that wounded two National Guard troops in D.C., officials say.
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Thank you for this excellent find.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.
D.C. National Guard shooting suspect identified as Afghan national who had worked with CIA. Here's what we know.
A 29-year-old Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspected shooter in the ambush that wounded two National Guard troops in D.C., officials say.
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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