Holocaust Museum Killing Suspect Popular on Free Republic

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This afternoon, a gunman apparently shot at least one person at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. MSNBC is reporting that the suspected shooter, who also sustained gunshot wounds, is James Von Brunn, a white supremacist born in 1920. Brunn has been approvingly cited on Stormfront, a national white supremacist website. He is apparently the author of a tract called, “Kill the Best Gentiles,” which his website describes as “a new, hard-hitting exposé of the JEW CONSPIRACY to destroy the White gene-pool.” Brunn, a WWII veteran, also wrote a screed on President Obama’s citizenship that was re-posted to popular right-wing message board Free Republic:

A Department of Homeland Security report leaked earlier this year — and subsequently retracted — warned of right-wing extremists “that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups).”

Update- MSNBC reports that the security guard whom Brunn shot, Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns, was pronounced dead at a Washington hospital this afternoon.

Update - Last year, Brunn wrote an article praising Hitler and calling America "a Third-World racial garbage-dump." The article's title was unambiguous:

Brunn concluded, "Prepare to die, White America -- you deserve it."