The shooting of two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday, November 26, is a tragedy. We hope for their full recovery and strongly condemn this heinous act.

Incidents such as this have nothing to do with and only do harm to the nonviolent mass struggle of millions that is needed to drive the fascist Trump regime from power. What makes this all the more painful is that these National Guardsmen were brought to DC illegally by the Trump regime under false pretenses.

While at this point, we know little about the identity or motivation of the shooter, whatever comes to light, all who care about justice must nonviolently oppose the attempts by the Trump regime to seize on this incident as a justification to deploy more troops and further escalate repression against the people and their rights.