The Afghani national accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard memvers in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon lives in a state with universal background checks, a 10-day waiting period on gun transfers, and bans on so-called assault weapons and large capacity magazines; none of which stopped him from obtaining a .357 revolver and driving 3,000 miles to commit a brazen act of political terror in our nation’s capitol.
So what’s an anti-gunner like Kris Brown supposed to do with a set of inconvenient facts like that? Blame President Trump for the shooting, of course.
I wrote back in Sept in @washingtonpost that the Trump administration was turning our nation’s capital into a tinderbox – even baiting armed violence.
It is terribly tragic that we are here today, with two families missing loved ones who are fighting for their lives. pic.twitter.com/l9R9Xmjmw2
— Kris Brown | @KrisBrown.BradyUnited.org (@KrisB_Brown) November 27, 2025
For the record, Brown’s piece in the Washington Post was headlined “Jeanine Pirro’s refusal to prosecute gun crimes endangers us all,” and most of her column was bashing the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. for refusing to prosecute cases where people with registered long guns were openly carrying them, or cases involving possession of “large capacity” magazines. Brown, of course, wants to see strict enforcement of those possessory offenses, and she claimed that the DOJ policy, coupled with the decision to allow the National Guard to carry firearms on D.C. streets, had turned the capital into a “tinderbox.”
As the prospects for unrest persist, extremists, self-described vigilantes and Jan. 6 radicals — who have been pardoned, coddled and emboldened by the Trump administration— might see this policy shift as a no-questions-asked invitation to march the D.C. streets armed with dangerous weapons without the threat of prosecution. And the danger runs both ways: If President Donald Trump’s takeover attracts extremist individuals or groups opposed to the operation, it will be harder for local and federal authorities to discern legitimate threats and keep them from escalating into violence.
The DOJ policy wouldn’t have prevented the killer from being prosecuted for carrying an unregistered firearm in D.C. As for Brown’s suggestion that arming National Guard members would attract “extremist individuals or groups opposed to the operation,” there is no indication that the suspect was motivated by the decision to allow National Guard members to carry guns.
Brown’s argument is akin to blaming the victim of a sexual assault for dressing provocatively, though in this case she’s accusing Trump of provoking this attack, not the Guard members themselves. We could flip that script, I suppose, and argue that the anti-2A machinations of politicians like Gavin Newsom and Kathy Hochul might also “attract extremist individuals or groups” opposed to their infringements on a fundamental civil right, but Brown would never argue that those provocative laws should be repealed in order to dial down political tensions.
The anti-gunner’s attempt to blame this attack on Trump instead of pointing the finger at the perpetrator is ultimately a self-serving attempt to distract from the fact that none of the gun control laws that groups like Brady claim are necessary to keep us safe stopped the killer from carrying out his attack.
The blame for Wednesday’s shooting rests squarely on the shoulders of the man who pulled the trigger, period. Brown should be mortified at giving cover to the killer by blaming Trump for his actions, but I think we all know by now how shameless the gun control lobby can be when it comes to putting their spin on heinous crimes like this one.
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