Two members of the West Virginia National Guard have been shot in Washington, D.C., officials confirmed Wednesday.

The far right nut jobs will now announce civil war has commenced. 

While far left nut jobs will say the shooter is a trump supporter.

A person on MS Now essentially said the Guard members deserved it because some people are triggered by people walking around in uniforms. 

These people are sick. 

They do seem to have more mental health issues than the normal person.

While far left nut jobs will say the shooter is a trump supporter.

Could be....

They do seem to have more mental health issues than the normal person.

Agree, just like the Tree Of life Shooting...Oh wait, that was a right wing nutter.

This is awful. You just now told me they died. I was really hoping they would survive

MSNBC is now saying the governor says he is not sure they died. Lets hope he was wrong the first time. 

I hope they aren't dead

Morning...it is headline breaking news here and from what they are saying it appears they were both shot in the head..

If this is the case, I hope they both quietly slip away if the damage is catastrophic..

I for one, would not want to be here...

Absolutely so distressing for the families and their loved ones, especially at this time of the year over there...🥀🥀

as seen on twitter

Dear god!!! It’s the DEMOCRATS!!! If

and

DONT FUCKING DO SOMETHING ITS A WAR. We the people are done with your hands off approach. THEY ARE CALLING FOR KILLING CHRISTIANS. CONSERVATIVES. ICE. NATIONAL GUARD . POLICE ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ on toast. Mass hysteria.

im sure X is going nuts. I havent looked at too much of it but they are blaming Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin

but they are blaming Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin

of course they are

The FBI will initially investigate the shooting of two members of the National Guard in D.C. as a possible act of terrorism, two senior U.S. law enforcement officials said.

The officials said that the suspect, who used a handgun in the attack, has been initially identified as an Afghan national. Though law enforcement officials are still trying to confirm all of the individual’s details, they said.

A motive in the shooting has not been determined, and the nature of the investigation could change.

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Afghan national

Some leftists will frame him as a "white Muslim"

Some leftists will frame him as a "white Muslim"

Most will simply hide

I believe his legal ability to stay expired in September,  which means if ICE had caught and deported him last week the left would have been calling ICE  Nazis and protesting on his behalf.

Correct, unfortunately we find ourselves with two members of the NG fighting for their lives.

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Thomas Fugate is a 22‑year‑old political appointee in Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), currently serving as Special Assistant and acting head of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention.

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What is your point?

Some leftists will frame him as a "white Muslim"

Like who?

Entered the country in 2021…

the Biden dividend keeps paying off 

probably pissed that the rest of the people who were supposed to come over got fucked by Trumpublicans. 

Biden was in much too big of a rush to vet anyone. Take everyone you can, leave the US Air Force base with all its planes and equipment and let 13 US service members get needlessly murdered. All part of the Biden legacy.

Meanwhile the Trump administration has now put a pause on immigrant applications from Afghan nationals.

 The suspect came into the United States in 2021, applied for asylum in 2024, and was granted asylum by the Trump Administration earlier this year  The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the United States in 2021 under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program. He applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted asylum by the Trump administration in April 2025. This timeline indicates that his asylum status was granted under the current government. The FBI is investigating the shooting as a potential act of international terrorism, and authorities are working to determine any ties to an international terrorist organization. CBS News+4 

the Biden dividend keeps paying off 

Granted asylum by the trump admin In April. 

Thanks trump. 

Great, I'm glad you agree granting asylum to Afghans is a mistake. 

Great, I'm glad you agree granting asylum to Afghans is a mistake. 

Great, I'm glad you admit this is trump's fault. 

The officials said that the suspect, who used a handgun in the attack, has been initially identified as an Afghan national. Though law enforcement officials are still trying to confirm all of the individual’s details, they said.

That was the crucial update which spares us from another poisonous conversation.


A motive in the shooting has not been determined,

Law enforcement sources said the FBI is initially treating the shooting as a potential act of terrorism.

The shooter has been identified as a 29-year-old Afghan national who came to the US during the chaotic 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal and remained in the country illegally, law enforcement sources told The Post. Remember that many questioned whether those brought in had been vetted.

withdrawal and remained in the country illegally,

Then why did the trump admin grant him asylum, Vic?

“[H]e was NOT vetted for his suitability to come to America and live among us as a neighbor, integrate into our communities, or eventually become an American citizen,” Kent added.

A senior US official also said that while Lakanwal had been “vetted to fight” for the US from 2011 to 2021, the Biden administration solely used that vetting to allow the Afghan entry to the US — a “low standard [that] has never been used before.”

Marine vet tells The Post why some Afghans ‘turn on’ US forces they fight with: ‘Happens a lot more than people suspect’

You didnt answer the question. 

Obviously, John, Trump believed those who claimed he was vetted. That won't happen again because Trump is putting a pause on the refugee program and we are going to cut off certain countries entirely.

Obviously, John, Trump believed those who claimed he was vetted. That won't happen again because Trump is putting a pause on the refugee program and we are going to cut off certain countries entirely.

So the trump admin had NO IDEA he was here illegally? Are you shitting me? 

“[H]e was NOT vetted for his suitability to come to America and live among us as a neighbor, integrate into our communities, or eventually become an American citizen,” Kent added.

But trump said he uses, "extreme vetting"..... What happened?

Link please

Police said the shooting occurred in the area of 17th and I Street in Washington, D.C.

I stayed in that hotel earlier this year.  I recommend the hotel, but it's a bit spooky to hear this happened in a place where I can still remember what the traffic sounded like.

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Two National Guard troops  were shot  in D.C. yesterday, reportedly by an Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal. He'd worked with Americans during the Afghan War and was let into the U.S. in 2021, after the fall of Kabul. Republicans have long  criticized  the Biden-era program that vetted Lakanwal, but both  CNN  and  ABC  are reporting that the Trump administration granted asylum to Lakanwal in April of this year.

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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

This a point also made by former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger, now a Trump critic:

This iframe is not allowed

Kinzinger says:

So in this terrible shooting of these Guard members today, one of the least surprising development[s] was the immediate jump to blame the left -- one person calling for deploying the military against the left -- and what we find out is it was actually an Afghan national that actually was granted his asylum under Trump, but I don't blame Trump for this. But the reality is, the FBI has pulled, and all of the defense security establishment has pulled, all of their focus on anti-terrorism and put it on the deportation. I'm just going to say that: a terrorist attack, and for the last year, the defense establishment and the FBI have pivoted from anti-terrorism to deportation. Use that for what you will.

Clearly, there's blame to go around. You might hear about a Justice Department inspector general's report from this past summer stating that 55 Afghan nationals let in under the Biden-era Afghan refugee program were found to be on terror watch lists. But please note that Trump Justice Department concluded that vetting and monitoring of these individuals  continued , to the apparent satisfaction of the current team at DOJ:

After investigations, the FBI eventually removed 46 evacuees from the watchlist, determining that they posed no threat to the homeland.

However, nine remained in the terror database as of July 2024 and eight were in the US....

Despite the 55 individuals flagged, the DOJ inspector general determined that overall “each of the responsible elements of the FBI effectively communicated and addressed any potential national security risks identified.”

I'm not ready to jump to A.R. Moxon's conclusion:

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Republicans are purposely and strategically incompetent on antiterror; they hope for violent attacks they can frame as terrorist, to justify accelerating the terrorist violence they’re already enacting against the US civilian population.

But I think Republicans have less motivation to be diligent on terrorism. They know that the George W. Bush administration missed the 9/11 warning signs, then had stratospherically high approval ratings in the aftermath of the attack.

Also, Republicans are reluctant to use government to solve problems that don't affect them personally and don't affect people they care about (mostly their rich donors). That's an Ayn Rand/Koch brothers approach to government. They don't really want to preserve government social programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, because  they  don't need them. They assume they can pay to shield themselves from consumer fraud. They're certain they can afford to live far from environmentally contaminated areas, and can relocate to dodge the effects of climate change. The schools their kids attend don't seem to have much gun violence.

They'll police social behavior -- banning abortions, cracking down on LGBTQ people -- because doing so wins them votes. They're pro-gun because their voters love guns. After 9/11, they focused on jihadist threats here and abroad because it was good politics, and because neo-imperialists gained the upper hand in their party.

But now the dominant strain of the Republican Party is "America First" (with an asterisk indicating that military adventurism aimed at Latin America is cool). They've lost interest in protecting Americans from terrorism. Why bother?  They  have good security, and so do their rich friends.

That's why the Trump administration doesn't seem to be trying very hard to prevent attacks of the kind we saw yesterday. The Trumpers are obsessed with native-born left and centrist critics -- "the enemy from within," they call us -- and with immigrants from Latin America. They don't seem to care about other dangers. And that may at least partly explain why yesterday's attack happened.

I have heard lots of theorizing on this and no actual evidence given for any of it. I highly doubt the governments contention that it was terrorism. It just does not look like it to me from a point of asking why. What the important take away from this (according to the Federal Government) is that he was a foreigner, an immigrant, and they can continue the push to ban immigrants by saying all immigrants are bad. This has been and will continue to be the reaction to any deaths of Americans whether they be accidental or not, that are supposedly precipitated by immigrants. Already there is talk of review and deportation of green card holders and the imposition of bans on the acceptance of any immigrants from specific countries. 

This is an example of how the Trump Administration is going to react to violence or any other excuse: If it is domestic, send in more troops; if it is by an immigrant, Harass and deport everyone of whatever group the immigrant is from. 

. I highly doubt the governments contention that it was terrorism

Lol.  It was a game of tag gone awry, I'm sure.

Regardless, under the Mark Kelly standard democratic rhetoric is to blame even if he was just a crazy person shooting people over a grammar dispute. 

There is a whole universe of territory between a game of tag and terrorism. The fact that you pretend not to know this is astounding... or maybe not, since shifting the subject has always been your MO.

How did that poem go? Something about “ First they came for …”?

I guess we’ll eventually see whether the people backing the current fascist wannabe will win or not.

Terrorism requires intent: a purpose to terrorize a population for political ends. Absent that, violence is crime that is tragic, criminal, condemnable, but not automatically terrorism. Unless, of course, you’re aligned with this administration’s narrative, where any random act of violence conveniently becomes “terrorism,” because fear is the whole strategy.

The question is: Afraid of what, exactly?

The vaguer the threat,the more generalized and ambiguous the "threat", the better the propaganda works. “Be afraid of everything and nothing,” and then the same people who stoke the fear get to portray themselves as the protectors. It’s an old trick.

As far as the available facts suggest, this looks like a disturbed individual who should have been in treatment, not the foot soldier of some global terror conspiracy.

And to everyone else: don’t relax just because power structures took a hit on election day. Keep your signs. Keep your voices. Keep protesting this filthy regime and its ongoing overreach, because this fight is not over. They aren’t gone, not even close. They aren’t even breathing hard yet.

They are scared, though, because they see the growing anger of Americans across the country. And scared authoritarians are the most dangerous kind.

Peaceful, non-violent resistance remains the only way forward, but don't give up the ship. 

The fact that you pretend not to know this is astounding

I'm not pretending anything. I'm ridiculing your doubt that this was terrorism. 

ince shifting the subject has always been your MO.

I'm addressing your post. You are trying to make this about me.  Talk about shifting the subject.

is looks like a disturbed individual who should have been in treatment

Of course he is. Only disturbed people walk up to strange women and murder them for their religion.  The point is there is no reason for him to have been here to victimize Americans. 

es. Keep protesting this filthy regime and its ongoing overreach, because this fight is not over. 

No, I'm sure progressives will keep spinning the murder of women in the national guard, pundits etc into claiming Trump is the threat.

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An Afghan national was arrested on Tuesday after posting a video of himself on TikTok indicating he was building a bomb with an intended target of the Fort Worth area, according to DHS.  Court records show Mohammad Dawood Alokozay is charged with making a terroristic threat at the state level. He came into the U.S. as a part of the Biden admin’s Operation Allies Welcome, just like the D.C. shooting suspect. On September 7 2022, he was admitted as a lawful permanent resident. ICE has lodged a detainer on him.

definitely not terrorism either 

LOL.

You almost make this too easy. BTW that’s an observation about your commentary, not a personal attack. Just as my remark about your consistent MO addressed your argument style, not you personally.

So here’s some constructive criticism of your reasoning:

Terrorism is a violent act committed in pursuit of a political objective, specifically to intimidate or coerce a population or government.

That intent is not optional. Absent demonstrable political purpose or coordinated ideological aim, the act remains a violent crime: horrific, indefensible, prosecutable, but not automatically terrorism.

This distinction matters.

The administration (and you) are attempting to raise the level of the crime at the same time as attributing it to the entire population of Afghan immigrants. This is classic collective blame. Prejudice is a more generalized way to say the same thing, and it does not reflect well on the government or on those who repeatedly rely on it in debate.

There was reason for him to be here. Reportage indicates he was working with US Intelligence and therefore a target for the Taliban. That is why he was here. The fact that he was left to stew in his own juices looks like more of an institutional oversight than evidence of a broader threat.