Reactions across the country after a National Guardswoman was murdered (active tense) have reverberated been far and wide. An Afghan national, brought to the United States during former President Joe Biden’s botched and hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan, allegedly drove from Washington state across the country, walked up to two unarmed National Guardsmen stationed at a Metro stop station in the heart of Washington, D.C., pulled out a revolver and shot them both.
Tragically one, 20-year-old Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, succumbed to her injuries and died at a hospital shortly after. The second Guardsman, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, is “fighting for his life,” but seems to be making slow progress.
The alleged gunman is in custody. Nearby National Guardsmen heard the shots fired, ran towards the danger and together put a stop to the shooting and apprehended the suspect.
Prayers have poured in for Beckstrom and her family, for the continued recovery of Wolfe and for immense gratitude as well for the work done by the National Guard and all law enforcement for keeping innocent Americans safe.
In a sad and sick twist, however, many — including elected officials and gun control allies — have offered disgusting remarks following the tragedy that completely remove any guilt or connection to the alleged murder and instead blame “gun violence” and even President Donald Trump for what happened.
Denying Reality
What facts are known at this time include that the alleged gunman drove across the country and used a revolver to harm and kill National Guardsmen stationed in Washington, D.C., to help reduce crime. There were several distinct actions taken by the alleged murderer to carry out his crime.
The responses, by some, were jaw-dropping in their inability to recognize a horrific criminal committed a shockingly cruel crime. “I’m devastated to learn of the passing of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a member of the West Virginia National Guard. She was only twenty years old,” New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted on social media.
Similarly, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) used similar talking points. “Heartbroken over the news of the passing of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a National Guard member who tragically lost her life in a horrific shooting in DC,” Rep. Omar posted.
Specialist Beckstrom was 20 years old. She had an entire life ahead of her. She didn’t “pass away” in a hospital bed, surrounded by loved ones, after a long fight against a terminal illness. She didn’t pass away peacefully at night due to natural causes. She was gunned down in a clearly pre-mediated attack by a deranged individual with ulterior motives.
Let’s also not forget, Mayor-elect Mandani believes “violence is an artificial construction,” wants to further cut law enforcement in New York City leaving residents in greater danger from criminal actions and posted in 2022 that “We need to ban all guns.”
For her part, Rep. Omar is firmly on the side of supporting more gun control while taking it easy on criminals.
Blaming Others
In one of the more disturbing trends in public statements following the heinous crime, several people cast blame for Beckstrom’s murder on other individuals — including President Donald Trump.
Brady United Against Gun Violence President Kris Brown was among them. “I wrote back in Sept in [the Washington Post] that the Trump administration was turning our nation’s capital into a tinderbox – even baiting armed violence,” she wrote after the shooting.
To be clear, members of the National Guard have been stationed in Washington, D.C., for a stretch to help local law enforcement and to cut down on rampant crime in the city, protecting innocent residents and visitors. Mayor Muriel Bowser thanked President Trump for the assistance and stated it is helping to make the city safer. In addition, the two Guardsmen shot were unarmed at the time, simply standing watch at a Metro stop.
The responses to Brown’s social media post are crystal clear on what people think of her assessment. “The guy drove all the ways (sic) from Washington State and used a revolver to do this. You’ve told us over and over again that you don’t have a problem with revolvers,” one poster said.
“Is homicide up or down in [Washington, D.C.] since the national guard came? Its halved,” another posted, stating a fact.
A third agreed, saying, “Enforcing laws and protecting the innocent is now ‘baiting armed violence’?”
Regarding the crime in the nation’s capital since the National Guard was called to help, the facts are clear in case Brown and her allies need any clarification.
As pointed out by another social media poster, the National Guard was deployed to Washington, D.C., on August 11. Between August 11 and November 26 (when the tragedy occurred), there had been 24 homicides in D.C. “In the identical time period last year, there were 61. The national guard have absolutely saved lives in DC,” Logan Dobson posted.
Honor and Courage
There is one person — one — to blame for the tragedy that took place in Washington, D.C., just one day before families all across the country gathered together to celebrate Thanksgiving. That alleged murderer was apprehended and will face justice for his actions.
The National Guard members who are bravely and selflessly serving to protect innocent Americans should be rightfully hailed for their courage.
Those who remove culpability from the criminal altogether, or shift blame to others, are doing a disgusting disservice to justice. Using this tragedy to push even more gun control — as many have done — after the alleged murderer used a revolver, are proving their stripes as firmly on the side of taking political potshots above knowing the facts. It is now standard procedure for the gun control lobby to exploit any tragedy, regardless of the facts, to advance their anti-Second Amendment agenda.
The murder of Specialist Beckstrom is a tragedy and we pray for the comfort of her family, as well as the continued recovery of Staff Sgt. Wolfe. They, and their colleagues, are truly worthy of admiration and praise for all they do.
Larry Keane is SVP for Government and Public Affairs, Assistant Secretary and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
“He was trained by the CIA”
What does that mean?
Was he trained to cook american style eggs?
Seriously.
Was he trained to used optics and a radio so he could report what he saw?
People say this stuff and never ask why the democrats flooded this country with unvetted immigrants. Allowed illegal aliens to come and stay. And commit crimes including “grape” and murder.
And then the democrat controlled areas of the united states. They will arrest the law abiding , who try to defend themselves against these illegal alien criminals.
The gun-grabbers’ despicable reaction is right out of their playbook – never let a tragedy go unpromoted.
Furthermore, it is unfathomable that ALL Nat’l Guard troops deployed to DC aren’t armed on duty. If they didn’t bring their M-4’s and/or M-17’s from WVa, surely some can be requisitioned from nearby Ft. Belvoir.
Canadian Province Resists Gun Ban. (note: also Canada has a ‘registry’ and is using it to do what every government in the world has used a ‘registry’ (or similar) for at one time or another – some form of ‘confiscation’ or ‘forced confiscation AKA ‘buy back”)
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Don’t Walk, Run! Productions: “NO MORE QUESTIONS FROM YOU!”
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More left wing violence – Biden-Harris intentional and illegal insecure border policy: Illegal Alien Shooter in Nebraska Injures Five, Mostly Police.
“A violent illegal alien criminal in Nebraska injured four policemen and put a civilian in critical condition during two wild shootouts on Wednesday.
Gov. Jim Pillen (R-Neb.) posted on X that Juan Melgar-Ayala, a convicted felon from El Salvador, began the shootout with Omaha Police that ended in his death. As of right now, none of Melgar-Ayala’s victims have died, but the illegal alien’s initial victim is in critical condition, though expected to survive.
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More left wing violence – J6 pipe bomber: in custody and charged, a Black male identified as 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr. of Virginia, he and family deeply entrenched in left-wing activism., worked for his father’s bail bond company which specialized in freeing illegal immigrants and even sued the Trump administration’s DHS over immigration enforcement.
Using the left wing media typical mysterious ‘anonymous sources’ ploy in the form of “two people familiar with the matter” – using these mysterious unidentified sources the left wing media reports that Cole “told investigators that he believed the 2020 election was stolen” trying to spin this into a ‘he was MAGA!’ false claim like they tried to do with Tyler James Robinson who murdered Charlie Kirk. Cole wasn’t ‘MAGA’ or ‘right wing’, he and family is solid left wing.
Cole Jr. began purchasing bomb-making parts by May 2019, during the Trump administration and long before any dispute about election results.
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additional: It turns out that the Biden DOJ knew about Cole, knew where he was and who he was and where he lived, knew he was at those locations he planted the pipe bombs at the times frames they were planted, knew all of this. They also knew he was a black left wing activists and it would not look good for them to arrest a black left winger bomb planting activists while they were trying to arrest and persecute ‘MAGA’ that were such ‘extremists’ they dared to set foot on their own ‘public property’ thus charged with the heinous crime of ‘trespassing’ while democrats were claiming some sort of ‘insurrection’ caused by Trump after democrats hiding thousands of hours of exonerating video and using left wing media gleeful participation to tell all sorts of lies and establishing an illegal and unconstitutional ‘committee’ to give it all an air of ‘official’ while they lied their butts off. It would not look good at all for the democrats that a violent black left wing ‘extremist’ bomb-making bomb- planting activist would be the one that planted the bombs.
Democrats defend narco-terrorists, I guess its margaritas next: The New Democrat Line on Narco-Terrorists Is That They Are Just Guys Trying to Make a Living.
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Rep. @jahimes
decided to go on MSNBC last night with Jen ‘Circle Back’ Psaki to defend narco traffickers and said:
‘Americans might cheer killing narco-terrorists… but look, these poor fellas clinging to the wreckage aren’t Pablo Escobar, they just lacked economic opportunity and made one bad choice.’
Translation: 100,000 American corpses from fentanyl is sad and all, but don’t hurt the feelings of the guys smuggling it, they’re basically unemployed Uber drivers who took a wrong turn.
Cry harder for the cartel mules while moms bury their kids, you spineless ghoul.
This is the modern Democrat Party in one disgusting soundbite.
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Just trying to make a living getting your kids hooked on chemical weapons, to commit crimes to money to buy these chemical weapons and eventually dying from these chemical weapons but yeah, they’re just poor farmers trying to eek out an (dis)honest living.
Democrats are vile creatures.
‘Gasp! How dare they do this! Its Racissssstttttt or something!’ the left wingers will scream: Sydney Sweeney Effect Confirmed – Pantone Crowns White the 2026 Color of the Year.
“Every year ‘Pantone’ chooses a color of the year. This color will inspire fashion and decor trends across the spectrum. This coming year’s pick was um, bold.
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Pantone’s Color of the Year 2026 is “Cloud Dancer.”
This is the first time ever they’ve chosen a shade of white.
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[now if they really want to drive the left wingers over the edge, do another jeans commercial with Sydney Sweeney in white jeans. 😂]
The thing happened that Democrats have been begging for and they act shocked? How many lost people are still buying these lies?
Mamdani said the slogan “globalize the intifada” is a “desperate desire for equality.” Intifada basically means an uprising or rebellion. That is exactly what Democrats have been asking for. This shooter merely acted on their desires.
We keep asking the Dems to cool it every time they kill one of us, but it falls on deaf ears. They couldn’t even make it a week after Trump was shot before comparing him to Hitler.
“Mamdani said the slogan “globalize the intifada” is a “desperate desire for equality.” Intifada basically means an uprising or rebellion. That is exactly what Democrats have been asking for. This shooter merely acted on their desires.”
Thomas Jefferson had a solution for Mamdani and the democrats that call for violence, which is tyranny by invoking fear and instability threat to our liberty – Jefferson basically recommended shooting them…
“And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
—- Thomas Jefferson – in part – In a letter dated November 13, 1787, to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams, a letter AKA the ‘Tree of Liberty’ letter”