One dead, two injured during a sniper attack on an ICE detainment facility.

 

A stripper clip with five rounds with the words "anti-ICE" written on it. New York Post/Government photo. 

One illegal immigrant was killed and two were injured in an anti-ICE attack on an ICE detainment facility in Dallas Texas. New York Post. The attacker, Joshua Jahn, was a 29 year old man and was found dead with a self inflicted gunshot wound. Though he hit immigrants, the message found on one of his bullets, Anti-ICE, suggests a political motive. Jahn used a 8mm rifle, presumably a Mauser, to target a bus that was entering the facility. Jahn was a registered Independent but voted in the 2020 Democratic primary. His mother was active on social media, and advocated for left wing positions, such as gun control. The incident was confirmed to be a targeted attack against ICE, despite hitting the immigrants instead of the ICE officers. The attack has been condemned by the Trump administration and has been cited as the third major attack against ICE since July 4th. 

My Comment:

Things appear to be escalating. By my count this is the fifth attack by a left wing radical in about a month. There was the school shooting done by a transgender person in Minnesota, the Charlie Kirk assassination, the attack on a local ABC affiliate, and the pro-Hamas shooting at a country club. This is the firth attack. 

There is little doubt that this was a left wing attack. The attacker appears to have been on the left and he wrote an anti-ICE message on the bullets he was using. His mom appears to be a left wing loon, though that doesn't necessary mean much, it does seem like the government is pretty sure that this too was a left wing attack. I'd also point out the utter hypocrisy of the mother calling for gun control while owning a rifle that her son used to shoot three people. 

We shouldn't read too much into the fact that he only hit the detainees. His brother said that Jahn was not a good shot and he might not even have been targeting people directly. He probably just shot at the bus assuming that the people inside were ICE agents, not folks on the way to be deported. I am guessing that the immigrants were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Despite the fact that the victims in the case are illegal immigrants, I am still angry that they were killed. I want these people deported, not killed, and certainly not by some loser leftist that can't even aim. There is no celebrating this attack on the right and I think there is pretty much universal agreement that the victims in this case did not deserve this. 

This absolutely does seem to be a copycat attack. Ever since the attack by Luigi Manngonie who assassinated a healthcare CEO, leftist shooters have been writing on their weapons and bullets. He also used a similar weapon to the Charlie Kirk assassin. Though the weapon hasn't been identified, it's mostly like an 8mm Mauser, a bolt action rifle. The attacker also used an elevated location to launch his attack, just like the 1st Trump assassination attempt and the Charlie Kirk assassination. All of this seems like this attack specifically was a case of contagion due to the media coverage.

I don't think this attack is part of a larger plot. Though Antifa has absolutely launched attacks on ICE before, this doesn't strike me as that. Antifa never seems to work alone and their last attack shows how a real Antifa attack would have gone, with a large number of rioters and a few shooters. It's possible that he had some links but this doesn't strike me as that. 

Instead, this feels like a "lone wolf" attacker. We saw this pattern all too frequently with ISIS. Core ISIS preferred splashy major attacks, but also inspired a wave of crazies that used whatever they had on hand because they were inspired by the violence they conducted. Many times those attackers had no real link to ISIS other than reading their materials online, but it would be unfair to not call them part of Islamic terrorism. I think the same pattern is repeating now with the far left. 

The left wing's response has been both predictable and disgusting. Since the victims in this case were illegal immigrants, they are trying to portray the attacker as a White MAGA extremist. The attacker is supposedly mixed race and very obviously not MAGA but that hasn't stopped people, to the point where they are even saying the message scrawled on the bullet is fake. 

I do think it's time to crack down on the far left. Doing so might not have prevented this attack, but it might have. The message we got from the Charlie Kirk assassin is that the left approves of violence and will defend you even if you murder a man for expressing his political beliefs. Does everyone on the left agree with that? No. But enough do that I think we will continue to see attacks like this. 

I also blame the Democrats and the media for this as well. They have been demonizing ICE for months now for doing nothing but what they are legally empowered to do and what the majority of Americans voted for them to do. They aren't Gestapo agents hunting down innocent people, they are professionals doing an increasingly dangerous job. The people they are detaining should not be here and removing them is not a bad thing. But the media is calling them Nazis and that's part of the reason this happened.