FORT HOOD SHOOTINGS: 12 Dead, 31 Injured On Texas Military Base

[david dissadent]

from reuters:





one of the worst? there's been worse then?

Not on the base but some nutter drove a truck into a coffee shop and went on a shooting spree that killed more people in the near by town of Killeen a decade or two ago.


Edited it was 23 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby's_massacre

Edited again, this might count as more people killed, but different circumstances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenogne_massacre

 

[Barking_Mad]

Optional. Just because you're a shill for a sky-pixie doesn't mean you won't be called on to hold the line.

Christians in the military - can't get more perverse than that.

 

[DeepStoat]

I wonder if this guy was ostracised from the main for being a Mohamedan.

That nutter in Scotland, which shot all those kids, had been shunned by his community for wrongly being accused of being a paedo-nonce.

There may be some similarities in the cases.

 

[citydreams]

higher score than the fucking taliban

ffs, can you please stop signing off with little : mad : emoticons

thank you.

 

[army_of_one]

I've got more than a few friends at Ft. Hood. I've only heard from two so far via facebook.

Hoping the rest are okay.

 

[gabi]

I've got more than a few friends at Ft. Hood. I've only heard from two so far via facebook.

Hoping the rest are okay.

Are u in the military yourself?

 

[david dissadent]

ffs, can you please stop signing off with little : mad : emoticons

: sane : would be a tad hypocritical dont you think?

 

[Badgers]

Hideous news

 

[army_of_one]

Are u in the military yourself?

Yes.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I've got more than a few friends at Ft. Hood. I've only heard from two so far via facebook.

Hoping the rest are okay.

I have a cousin there who is a medical stock clerk. His unit are all safe and accounted for, but I bet he had a busy day.

 

[DeepStoat]

Hideous news

As compared what comes out of Afghanistan everyday?

 

[Ralph Masters]

As compared what comes out of Afghanistan everyday?

the guy is a psychiatrist

 

[gabi]

As compared what comes out of Afghanistan everyday?

That's a pretty cheap shot

 

[Ralph Masters]

I suppose it make the Afghani policeman look less of a badboy,

 

[Griff]

News on the radio at 1.00 said some people were killed by 'friendly fire'.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

the guy is a psychiatrist

That explains a lot. All the ones I know have been nutjobs.

 

[Badgers]

As compared what comes out of Afghanistan everyday?

I was not talking about Afghanistan

Just think that the whole thing is hideous, trying to think how people affected must be feeling and reacting.

 

[STFC]

As compared what comes out of Afghanistan everyday?

Relevance?

 

[Ralph Masters]

News on the radio at 1.00 said some people were killed by 'friendly fire'.

It sounds like the makings of a film

 

[david dissadent]

I have the faintest memory of a similar shooting in Nothern Ireland way way back. Soldiers finished a patrol and cleared there weapons, when the rest of the patrol had cleared their weapons one of them started shooting the rest.

Its a very dim memory, wonder if anyone else remembers the case?

To be brutaly honest I am suprised it does not happen more often.

News on the radio at 1.00 said some people were killed by 'friendly fire'.

5.56mm ammo plus large crowds; not suprised. There is a reason British cops dont have assault rifles.

 

[dat brown skin]

To be brutaly honest I am suprised it does not happen more often.

I said the same thing on my blog. Also as it turns out the "hero" of the day didn't bring the gun man down. Give a brotha his due

 

[dat brown skin]

That explains a lot. All the ones I know have been nutjobs.

A long time ago I learned many of them get into it to figure out their own issues.

 

[TAE]

I said the same thing on my blog. Also as it turns out the "hero" of the day didn't bring the gun man down. Give a brotha his due

it appears Hasan was not wounded up to the point when Officer Munley was gunned down by Hasan, which can only mean it was Senior Sgt Todd who fired the shots that took him down

I thought Officer Munley shot him after being wounded?

 

[Ralph Masters]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8359316.stm


It seems like the accused has been paralysed and one of the victims was pregnant.

He might face the death penalty,

 

[Azrael]

He might face the death penalty,

Good. It was a horrible, purposeless crime.

 

[Knotted]

He was going to be shipped out to kill Afghans anyway.

 

[JHE]

I loved the way the BBC reported that the killer "happened to be a Muslim".

 

[Knotted]

Relevance?

Do you seriously think that isn't relevant? He was shooting GI's who were about to be sent to Afghanistan.

 

[Pickman's model]

Do you seriously think that isn't relevant? He was shooting GI's who were about to be sent to Afghanistan.

thus saving them from the danger of ieds

 

[Knotted]

thus saving them from the danger of ieds

More importantly, saving the Afghans from them.