Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

For the most part, no one has guns on a military base outside of MPs and people using them on-duty. Soldiers can register private weapons on base, but they have to be locked up and transported to and from hunting/range without deviation.

surely it doesn't matter where it was- if people have access to guns, eventually someone is going to use them to shoot a bunch of people.

Update 3:36 Fort Hood officials say they cannot confirm whether the shooters were military or civilians.

^^ yeah maybe i spoke too soon.

surely it doesn't matter where it was- if people have access to guns, eventually someone is going to use them to shoot a bunch of people.

... Really? Isn't that like saying "if people have access to knives, eventually someone is going to use them to stab a bunch of people"?

I mean, I am not an advocate of widespread gun access but I am also not an advocate of making up bullshit premises so you can scare people into doing what you want them to do.

yeah i've got fam at ft hood right now

waiting on word

(I would likely support the argument that guns have been desensitized into playthings and we, as a society, have become too irresponsible to be trusted with them as a reason for gun control)

Dan: Yes but at least knives have other uses? Guns can't prepare food, they just kill.

Um... what?

i dunno. i'm all tv-ed out.

are you saying that the military shouldnt have guns

U.S. Rep. McCaul, maybe unaware soldiers are suspects, calls shooting "coordinated attack against our military" and "an act of terror."

shhhh prez is on..

There you go, Cankles:
General says dead include a civilian police officer from the Ft. Hood police force.

brb, gonna go shoot up some fried turkey

I hear it's hell on the veins

(Hoos, I hope yr family is okay)

ditto

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/texas.fort.hood.shootings/index.html

In June, Fort Hood's commander, Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, told CNN that he was trying to ease the kind of stresses soldiers face. He has pushed for soldiers working a day schedule to return home for dinner by 6 p.m., and required his personal authorization for anyone working weekends. At the time, two soldiers stationed there had committed suicide in 2009 -- a rate well below those of other posts.

tbh this is much better than my job, minus today's shootings and the suicide stats

Hmmm...

Update 4:08 ABC News reports shooter's identity is Malique Hassan.

oh, that's just great...

Apparently all three gunmen were soldiers.

Have they released the names of the two surviving suspects?

please let their names be buck utah and deke america : /

Nothing as yet

i guess that makes my point completely moot. doh! still bad tho

There was a foiled terrist plot here last year that involved somali muslim idiots planning to shoot up an army base :/ I hope the US media don't leap on that as some kind of link :/

He was a Major. 39-40 years old.

Naleek Nahal Assan

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572350,00.html

Major Malik Nadal Hasan

I admit I wasn't expecting this to be a middle aged officer.

I was just reading the Rolling Stone article about the murders at Fort Carson earlier today and I couldn't help but wonder at first if this was another case of a returning vet snapping after a complete lack of support.

OK, the local right wing host is shouting to the skies, demanding to know why the FBI won't call this an act of "jihadist terrorism." "Why are they being so politically correct?" he's saying. Gee, maybe because the FBI doesn't have all the information yet?

Wouldn't want to be a Muslim in the armed forces right now.

Seems like while there are two other soldiers held as suspects at present only Hasan was the shooter.

Actually, wouldn't want to be anyone in the armed forces right now.

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please let their names be buck utah and deke america : /

― jØrdån (omar little), Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:26 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^^^

xpost Maybe he went postal because everyone assumed he was Muslim?

recent convert to Islam
originally from Virginia

“US Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan” sounds as ridiculous as “President Barack Hussein Ubama”.
God help America.

45 posted on Thu Nov 5 14:49:55 2009 by Lancey Howard
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Fuck this country.

let the xenophobia commence!

amurrica

lol malik hasan was a doctor

A psychiatrist even. Okay every further new detail about this case makes my head spin.

Holy hell.

Good luck USA :/

wow

weird detail: "At the time, two soldiers stationed there had committed suicide in 2009 -- a rate well below those of other posts."

Interesting how this will be spun as terrorism, but the beltway snipers were just... uh... serial killers who talked about jihad.