💬 Opinion 6d ago · Joe Lancaster

The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Is No Excuse for More Security Theater

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The Correspondents' Dinner Shooting Is No Excuse for More Security Theater
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Secret Service agents reportedly subdued a gunman Saturday at the Washington Hilton hotel, during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
"A man charged a security checkpoint armed with multiple weapons, and he was taken down by some very brave members of Secret Service," President Donald Trump said while posting security camera footage to social media.
Officials later identified the assailant as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old California man, and said he was armed with a shot

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