Suspect dies after firing upon agents at White House checkpoint, Secret Service says, with a bystander also injured
A gunman has been shot dead after approaching a White House security checkpoint and firing at officers, federal officials have said.
The White House, where Donald Trump was present, was briefly locked down on Saturday as the sound of a sustained volley of gunshots rang out, sending journalists in the area running for cover.
During the shooting, a bystander was also shot. The Secret Service said: “It remains unclear whether the bystander was struck by the suspect’s initial gunfire or during the subsequent exchange of gunfire.”
I can’t believe we’re on the timeline where the white house goes on lockdown and no one really cares because the administration has the credibility of the boy who cried wolf. The stupidest part is that this is their own doing.
To be fair, a completely credible and real shooter using a real gun actively putting live rounds into the whitehouse with actual real life deadly bullets, for real and not in any fictional or euphemistic manner, would also not really be something I care about.
Well, unless it ended the life of a fascist, then maybe there would be a silver lining I could appreciate.
There’s also the line of thought that if there was a real scenario, it’s the end result of their own gun policies. if their morality had any consistency, they would be quietly celebrating it like they do mass shootings.