I'll Never Walk Through DC The Same Way Again
It’s up to America to make sure this tragedy is never repeated.
The Farragut West metro stop is where a crazed Afghan man allegedly shot two members of the National Guard on Thanksgiving eve. One is now dead. The other is in critical condition.
I walk out of that metro stop everyday to go to work. I walk past it to pick up lunch. And again when I walk to the press entrance of the White House.
Two blocks away is my office and a popular park tourists frequent as they try to get a glimpse of the president.
One block away is where the Secret Service’s perimeter of the White House begins.
The National Guard has been a Godsend in Washington, D.C. Take it from a young woman like myself — they were needed. But I never thought they were needed in what is probably the safest two blocks of America.
A month or so ago, I was doing a TV hit that featured a panel with the show host, a liberal commentator and me.
We were discussing the presence of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., and the liberal commentator argued they weren’t needed and even if they were, they looked authoritarian.
The host pushed back, saying that she finally feels safe walking home at night for the first time in ages.
Then I told a story.