Holocaust Museum: Shooting in DC 'gun free zone'

June 10, 2:19 PMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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There's been a gunfight at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington., D.C.

I'm including the Google News link for search terms holocaust museum shooting. It should update with new report links as they become available.

Here's what is being reported so far, from The Washington Post:

A security guard and two other people were shot today inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum...U.S. Park Police said a gunman armed with a shotgun opened fire on the security guard and that other security guards returned fire. The gunman was reported wounded.

It should be noted that the museum, as well as all of Washington D.C. are "gun free zones" as far as carrying guns by non-government law enforcement personnel is concerned. Which is ironic when you consider the "Personal Histories" headline on the museum's "Resistance" page:

"At that time, a gun and a million dollars, the gun was worth more than a million dollars."

"Never again" is nothing more than a hollow slogan without the means to protect against it.  Disarmament helped make genocide possible.

Museum visitors are fortunate that men with guns were immediately present to protect them.

I'll be checking back in throughout the day to see if newsworthy updates are available. In the mean time, you can continue to check the above Google News link. 

UPDATE (3:28 pm EST): A history with "hate groups"?

He's 88?

James W. Von Brunn's "Holy Western Empire" website appears unavailable at this time--perhaps more people are visiting it than the servers can handle.  Even Google cache would only get me to the main page and not allow me to explore the site.

For now this link via the Internet Archive "Wayback Machine" appears to be working.

You should also be able to access earlier versions of his site from here.

UPDATE (4:00 pm EST): Read the first six chapters of his racist screed "Kill the Best Gentiles" here, via the Internet Archive.

Scary stuff.

UPDATE (4:46 pm EST): Security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns reported dead.  Statement of Holocaust Museum:

A shooting incident occurred at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 14th St. entrance. An assailant shot a Museum security officer. Two Museum security officers returned fire hitting the assailant. The Museum officer and the suspect have been transported to a local hospital.

The Museum is closed for the remainder of the day and expects to be open tomorrow. We will release more information as it becomes available.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the officer and his family.

UPDATE (5:00 pm EST): He was a "prohibited person," so that's another set of 'gun control" laws that did absolutely nothing to protect the public.

In 1983, Von Brunn was convicted of attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board. He was arrested two years earlier outside the room where the board was meeting, carrying a revolver, knife and sawed-off shotgun, the AP reports.

UPDATE (6:55 pm EST): The predictable demonization of conservative gun owners has begun.

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