A couple of thousand people were inside the building at the time. The guard who was killed gave his life defending them, and he is a hero. People tend to give security officers short shrift, but any place can be a target, and their actions are important. It's sad that a crackpot like this would be so driven by intolerance that he would shoot indiscriminately in a place that teaches tolerance and commemorates those who died from the systematic slaughter of a people in an effort to prevent such horrors again.
Here's a video where they discuss the role the assailant has played in Holocaust denial, white supremecy, etc. and whether the fringe, less empowered in the era of Obama, is more likely to pursue violence in hate crimes. There have been three high-profile shootings recently--a Muslim gunman who killed a soldier outside a recruiting office, the killing of an abortion provider in a church, and now this.
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For the Administration's reaction, see the White House Blog's On the Holocaust Museum Shooting, which is actually where I first heard the story.
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