The Wall Street Journal condemned Donald Trump’s “collective punishment” of Afghans after the fatal ambush on National Guard members in D.C., urging the White House not to use the actions of one person to target thousands of others.

After Wednesday’s attack, which led to the death of one Guard and left another with critical injuries, Trump immediately cast the shooting as validation for a purge of immigrants from the country.

But the Journal’s editorial—published in the Rupert Murdoch-owned title on Thursday afternoon—argued that tens of thousands of Afghans “building new lives… shouldn’t be blamed for the violent act of one man,” adding that punishing all Afghans “won’t make America safer.”

It said the alleged gunman—Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who fought with U.S forces during the Afghanis

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