Well, this is just great, at one of our own bases. A guy named Malik Nadal Hasan and a couple of others did this. I can't wait to see the conspiracy behind this act of terrorism.

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Very sad day. I met my wife and got married while stationed at Ft. Hood.

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Riding a fast bike at near legal speeds is boring. Riding a Strom at those same speeds is an adrenaline rush.

A tragedy indeed.

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Make the world safe for stupid people and you will end up with a world full of stupid people.

I just left sheppard AFB which is close to there. Its bad enough kids get sent over to the sandbox to put their lives on the line, now one of their own commissioned leaders is taking the lives of their battlebuddies. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the fallen.

got a link?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33678801...rts/?GT1=43001

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Thank President Clinton for the near gun ban on military posts in CONUS.


Excerpt from John Lott on Foxnews.com:

“Shouldn't an army base be the last place where a terrorist should be able to shoot at people uninterrupted for 10 minutes? After all, an army base is filled with soldiers who carry guns, right? That is not the case. Beginning in March 1993, under the Clinton administration, the new policy forbids military personnel from carrying their own personal firearms and mandates that "a credible and specific threat against personnel [exist] in that region" before military personnel "may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection." Indeed, most military bases have relatively few military police as they are in heavy demand to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The unarmed soldiers could do little more than take cover as Major Nidal Malik Hasan stood on a desk and shot down into the cubicles in which his victims were trapped. Some behaved heroically, such as private first class Marques Smith who repeatedly risked his life removing five soldiers and a civilian from the carnage. But, being unarmed, these soldiers were unable to stop Hasan's attack.

The law-abiding, not the criminals, are the ones who obey the ban on guns. Instead of making areas safe for victims, the bans make it safe for the criminal. Hasan not only violated the army's ban on carrying a gun, he also apparently violated the rules that require soldiers to register privately owned guns at the post.

For the safety of our soldiers and citizens, we hope that this simple fact about the Ft. Hood attack and the role that gun-free zones played in allowing yet another multiple victim public shooting becomes part of the news coverage itself. The political debate about guns would be quite different if even once in a while a news story clearly explained that there has been another multiple victim public shooting in a gun-free zone."

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"Thank President Clinton for the near gun ban on military posts in CONUS."

Maybe our current administration will examine the events, and change that, or not...

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Clinton was a gun-grabber of the first order, no doubt about that. But weapons have been tightly controlled on military posts for a long time. I was in the army back in the early '70s, most of my time was at Ft. Hood, and even then almost no one walked around with a weapon. When they did issue you a weapon for guard duty or something it was without ammo. Even out on the gunnery ranges they were careful to account for every weapon and every round of ammunition.

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