AN EASY TARGET? National Guard drill pegs gun owner as the villain

Published February 13, 2014

FoxNews.com

Last year, the Ohio National Guard conducted a training drill in which a fictitious school custodian, angry about gun control, unleashed chemical weapons. (Ohio National Guard)

The Ohio National Guard has seen the enemy and it is a school janitor who supports the Second Amendment?

The Guards 52nd Civil Support Team held a training drill last year in southern Ohio which pitted members against a sinister janitor and a chemistry teacher sidekick who concocted chemical weapons in two makeshift labs, unleashing them on middle school students before killing himself. Inside the lair of the creepy custodian, identified as Mr. Wart, agents found several statements about protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights on a chalkboard as well as on tables, according to the training packet.

Fortunately, none of it actually happened. Critics say it is telling that a government groups chosen bogeyman would be Second Amendment supporters.

They were characterizing gun owners and Second Amendment supporters as white extremists," Chad Baus, of the Buckeye Firearms Association, told FoxNews.com. "It was a month after Sandy Hook. There was a large debate where gun owners were being blamed. I think the timing of it was extremely important here.

- Chad Baus, Buckeye Firearms Association

According to the drill, Mr. Wart and the unnamed chemistry teacher were producing ricin and sulfur mustard. Another clue to their motivation was a printed CNN article found among instructions for making the deadly toxins. In the article, a real story from March 2011, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre accused the Obama administration of trying to weaken the Constitutions Second Amendment.

Other evidence found near Mr. Wart included the name and contact information of William Pierce, an infamous (and now dead) neo-Nazi.

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AN EASY TARGET? National Guard drill pegs gun owner as the villain