A 29-year-old Afghan national Identified As Shooter of National Guard Members in Washington, D.C.

[BULLDOG]

This incident brings a question to mind. DC is the seat of our government, with the House, Senate, the president and all his staff, and countless other dignitaries from the US and most other countries. Each of those mentioned is a potential target, and requires around the clock armed security. Add the 2700 armed National Guard Troops, and thousands of armed DC police, and that makes DC the most armed city in the country. More guns per square foot than anywhere else in the country. Possibly more than anywhere else in the world. Gun nuts are fond of saying more guns make us safer. If more guns make us safer, how did those two guard troops get shot so easily?

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

This incident brings a question to mind. DC is the seat of our government, with the House, Senate, the president and all his staff, and countless other dignitaries from the US and most other countries. Each of those mentioned is a potential target, and requires around the clock armed security. Add the 2700 armed National Guard Troops, and thousands of armed DC police, and that makes DC the most armed city in the country. More guns per square foot than anywhere else in the country. Possibly more than anywhere else in the world. Gun nuts are fond of saying more guns make us safer. If more guns make us safer, how did those two guard troops get shot so easily?

How does a soldier in combat get shot?

 

[Care4all]

Weren't you wingnuts all the ones whining four years ago that Biden was abandoning our allies by not bringing over the people who supported us?

Yes. They were bitching like no tomorrow that Joe abandoned the Afghani helpers......

 

[BULLDOG]

How does a soldier in combat get shot?

So, do more guns make us safer or not?

 

[Rogue AI]

Yes. They were bitching like no tomorrow that Joe abandoned the Afghani helpers......

Only some. Plenty of us did not support bringing any of them here.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

This incident brings a question to mind. DC is the seat of our government, with the House, Senate, the president and all his staff, and countless other dignitaries from the US and most other countries. Each of those mentioned is a potential target, and requires around the clock armed security. Add the 2700 armed National Guard Troops, and thousands of armed DC police, and that makes DC the most armed city in the country. More guns per square foot than anywhere else in the country. Possibly more than anywhere else in the world. Gun nuts are fond of saying more guns make us safer. If more guns make us safer, how did those two guard troops get shot so easily?

The ability to DEFEND Yourself makes YOU safer. Why do you think the rich have ARMED bodyguards

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

So, do more guns make us safer or not?

Well, they shot the perp, didn’t they?

 

[BULLDOG]

The ability to DEFEND Yourself makes YOU safer. Why do you think the rich have ARMED bodyguards

Those troops each had an M4 And a 9MM handgun. How many more guns would they each have to have to be safe?

 

[Care4all]

Only some. Plenty of us did not support bringing any of them here.

Turns out it was the Trump admin in April of 2025, giving him asylum is what I just heard on the news????

 

[BULLDOG]

Well, they shot the perp, didn’t they?

More guns didn't seem to help the Guard troops or the perpetrator. How many more guns would each of the three need to be safe?

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

Those troops each had an M4 And a 9MM handgun. How many more guns would they each have to have to be safe?

They were caught by surprise and ambushed. Obviously they weren’t expecting anything like that. Hell, any idiot with no combat training could have accomplished the same thing, M4s and 9MM handguns or no.

Stop pretending you don’t know this.

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

More guns didn't seem to help the Guard troops or the perpetrator. How many more guns would each of the three need to be safe?

How many more might he have killed if they weren’t armed?

The gunman is the bad guy here. Your attempt to conflate it to a 2nd Amendment debate is cheap and lazy.

 

[Rogue AI]

Turns out it was the Trump admin in April of 2025, giving him asylum is what I just heard on the news????

He applied in 2024, you would need to look at the whole process before simply blaming the Trump administration. Clearly those in the Biden administration didn't reject it or send up any red flags. Either way his green card request was still pending. It all goes back to Biden letting him in in the first place. Clearly a grievous mistake.

 

[Natural Citizen]

CIA-backed strike force units in Afghanistan

There are five militias that, says Human Rights Watch, come under only the nominal control of the Afghan intelligence agency, the NDS and do not “fall under the ordinary chain of command within the NDS, nor under normal Afghan or US military chains of command.” Rather, they are “recruited...

www.afghanistan-analysts.org

 

[BULLDOG]

They were caught by surprise and ambushed. Obviously they weren’t expecting anything like that. Hell, any idiot with no combat training could have accomplished the same thing, M4s and 9MM handguns or no.

Stop pretending you don’t know this.

I understand. The more guns being safer thing only counts if you know somebody is going to shoot you that day, right? The troops were pretty heavily armed. They had no idea someone might shoot at them? Why do you think they were so heavily armed? Were they planning to shoot people on the street?

 

[Care4all]

He applied in 2024, you would need to look at the whole process before simply blaming the Trump administration. Clearly those in the Biden administration didn't reject it or send up any red flags. Either way his green card request was still pending. It all goes back to Biden letting him in in the first place. Clearly a grievous mistake.

I'm not blaming Trump or Biden....why does anyone but the shooter get the BLAME?

 

[Rogue AI]

I'm not blaming Trump or Biden....why does anyone but the shooter get the BLAME?

He wouldn't have shot Americans if he wasn't here. So there is that.

 

[egp320i]

There other rights covered in the First Amendment if you would care to read it sometimes. You know religion is one of those things covered, right? Requiring they convert is unconstitutional. We just don't do what you dream about.

I said nothing about converting to be admitted, I said if they already converted from islam and are going to be murdered for it then we will give them shelter because of the 1st

You don't agree?

 

[BULLDOG]

How many more might he have killed if they weren’t armed?

The gunman is the bad guy here. Your attempt to conflate it to a 2nd Amendment debate is cheap and lazy.

The injured guardsmen never fired a shot. Them being armed had no effect either way.

 

[Rogue AI]

The injured guardsmen never fired a shot. Them being armed had no effect either way.

Do you not understand the concept of an ambush attack? Or did you just spout off without bothering to learn anything about this topic? Either way you are making a complete fool of yourself.