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Two National Guard soldiers shot in Washington DC

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So instead of killing Taliban he decided to kill National Guardsmen who had nothing to do with it. Was this his actual motive or is this speculation?
It's my tossing around ideas while we wait for the official word on that....
 
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Yup, my friends are also police officers and they like to find out things about people.....

From motive, we can build a safer society to prevent this from happening again.

God bless you
 
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Yup, my friends are also police officers and they like to find out things about people.....

From motive, we can build a safer society to prevent this from happening again.

God bless you
Knowing the motive behind this will not prevent it from happening again
 
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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.
Your point has been made and I agree that they shouldn't be deployed there. Considering that, maybe it is time to stop deliberating on that aspect.
 
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Please pray for those 2 soldiers.
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The president has just reported that the young lady has passed. This is so sad & I place much of the blame on our weak democratic party who just everyone to move here so that they can give away freebies in return for a vote. The blood is on their hands because they are not following federal. All nations must protect their borders.
 
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The president has just reported that the young lady has passed.
Extremely unfortunate. Looking at both Trump's and Biden's involvement in all of this, I conclude that... I put the complete blame on the murderer, who should receive the full weight of the law.
 
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Your point has been made and I agree that they shouldn't be deployed there. Considering that, maybe it is time to stop deliberating on that aspect.
It’s an aspect about this many want to overlook but yes, I agree it’s not the most central part of the story. I think it’s important to highlight. Another side is how determined he was to drive across the country to carry this out in the nation’s capital. Makes me think the blame lies a bit more on our foreign policy of the past 25 years than any specific action from any recent administration.
 
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Extremely unfortunate. Looking at both Trump's and Biden's involvement in all of this, I conclude that... I put the complete blame on the murderer, who should receive the full weight of the law.
Well said and I agree completely!
 
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The NG aren’t doing any law enforcement work in the Capitol. They are literally just standing around, like expensive props.

I guess that helps you feel a bit safer? It clearly hasn’t made the city any safer.

They’ve been there for months. You’re saying their presence hasn’t made the city safer? I would agree.
You're all over the place with this. First it's they don't know how to apply law enforcement which is incorrect. Then it's they just stand around which makes whether or not they know how to apply law enforcement moot. Then you go back to saying the city isn't safe, yet it doesn't need a deterrent put in place.

It seems clear it's is a matter of you not liking the NG being in DC, but can't come up with a cogent argument against it.
 
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