Here we go again:

A crazed gunman who belived he was Jesus Christ pulled out a revolver and opened fire outside the White House Saturday night, before he was quckly taken down by a barrage shots from the Secret Service, sources said.

Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He only got off a few shots before he was shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.

At least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.

While a motive for the attack hasn’t been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who was well-known to the Secret Service for repeatedly loitering around various entry posts and who has violated a previous court order to stay away from the White House.

In case you’re wondering why this guy was wandering around at liberty, it’s really hard to involuntarily commit someone for long. This is what had happened with Best:

Best … had previously been involuntarily committed on June 26, 2025, for obstructing vehicular traffic at 15th Street and E Street NW, before being arrested again on July 10, 2025, for Unlawful Entry. …

In that incident, Best bypassed a restricted White House pedestrian control post by walking through an exit turnstile lane — and made crazed statements when D.C. police and Secret Service agents detained him.

“[Best] claimed he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to get arrested,” court records of the incident said.

My guess is that he was involuntarily committed, stayed a few days and got slightly stabilized on meds, and refused to stay after that. Then he got out and stopped taking any medication, and now one person is seriously wounded (another has been reported slightly wounded) and Best himself is dead.

At least he didn’t get close to the White House. But it’s not as though there wasn’t plenty of warning with this guy. I wonder whether he was armed in his previous encounters; perhaps not, or he might have been charged with something serious and detained longer. But there’s a limit to how long that can go on involuntarily.

I find it hard to believe he possessed the firearm legally.