Ken Delaney

And we know that.

And I think that if any guardsmen were not armed, it appears that these guardsmen had at least small arms on them because they were able to return fire or summon the crowd, or summon the group.

I think they usually travel in groups of four.

Someone was able to get several shots off and wound this assailant.

But we'll need to understand who in that group had weapons, who did not.

But

You can't be a law enforcement official in the 21st century in a city like Washington, D.C., where gun crime is high, where the gangs roam and have roamed freely, though they've been reined in quite a bit the last few weeks, and not be armed.

You've got to be on equal firepower with the bad guys.

And so we'll get into that.

I've seen a lot of the guardsmen armed when I've engaged them.

I've had some great conversations.

I met a couple on 8th Street right where this happened just about a week ago.

Two weeks ago, I bought them some coffee, and

It's just good people, and they're proud to be defending their country, proud to be making their capital a little safer.

They see their work as righteous, and they see the critics as somehow just silly.

They don't appreciate what these men and women are doing.

And I think at the end of the day, if any of them are unarmed and they're out in the street, that's got to change because anyone is a target these days.

That is a sad, sad thing.

We learned that tragically with Charlie.

And we're learning it again tragically today here on a night, an eve, when we should be celebrating a holiday.