All veterans are instructed in “interior guard.” That is what I meant. All means all.
Final defensive positions are never marked. They are on paper in the emergency plan, and known by all of the guard force.
There is a element of common sense missing here. If you storm an access-controlled federal building, you may get past the initial guards. But if you continue, you will arrive at what is known as the final defensive position. And if you are interpreted as a threat, there is only death. That is just the way it is.
You can test everything I said. Ask any former embassy guard (like myself). Or any federal police that doesn’t just write tickets: they have the mission of protecting people, classified, and property. They will tell you that when it comes to protecting people, it’s not negotiable— you get killed really quickly if you pose a threat.
That is why they were hired.
I do realize the emotional argument. She was a beautiful patriot. But even if she wasn’t. If she was butt-ugly with wooden teeth...the outcome is the same.
Which is complete horsehocky, and you know it. Every protected space has large signs clearly warning anyone that "deadly force is authorized" beyond that point. If you have really been a member of the Marine Security Guard, you'd know that. I have been to that part of the Capitol on numerous occasions in the past and I have also been to several embassies all over the world - and special weapons sites. Those protected sites have visible warnings. And there are several steps taken prior to reaching those points where warnings are issued and/or nonlethals deployed.
The embassy Marines in Tehran who were faced by thousands of violent Iranian rioters never fired a shot because they had the discipline and courage to hold their posts and follow the orders of the ambassador.