Shooting at Fort Hood
 

Reports saying that there were up to 3 shooters.

Someone told me that on Fox, it was said that at least one of the shooters was an actual soldier.

When I heard 3 shooters, I thought "terrorist attack" whether foreign or domestic. Where do you find 3 people willing to go on a military base and start shooting people?

However if it is true that one of the persons is a soldier, one wonders if we have a case of having only one actual shooter, and the reports of 3 being mere confusion. Certainly they could be holding a couple of people to sort things out.

Mental illness comes to mind as well.

We shall see soon enough.

Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

An officer. With an Arabic-sounding name. Sounding more like a form of terrorism than mental illness.

Just had a "Holy S***" moment.

The shooter was a psychiatrist.

is alive. is a psychiatrist. soon to be, was a psychiatrist. soon to be, in a few years, was alive.

I'm glad he survived. The victims are not robbed of the justice that comes from their fellow citizens weighing in and handing down society's punishment.

Hasan's family must be stunned.

Reports now that he was giving away Korans and his furniture the morning before. Giving things away is not uncommon before suicide. Also apparent behavior change in the weeks before, wearing Middle Eastern/Muslim clothing. That he had two handguns and sufficient ammunition to shoot more than 40 people makes this obviously premeditated. He intended to die. Indiciations that he was dissatisfied with U.S. foreign policy, that he did not want to be deployed, that he may have felt persecuted for his religious beliefs. Also that he had been reprimanded for inappropriately sharing his own Muslim beliefs with patients (highly unethical and outside practice norms) and colleagues. Reports that he said "Allah Akubar" as he was shooting. Parents dead, no recent contact with family. Single. Probably never married, no kids. Not clear how connected this man was into the social fabric of society--may have been a loner. Also unknown whether he himself had mental illness--for example depression, delusions, bipolar, mania, drug use.

This may end up being a case of radical Muslim ideology mixing with the disturbed psyche of a troubled loner. In this likely deeply unhappy man--a combustible mix. Note that this is an American-born, American-trained, US citizen.

You better believe Virginia Tech is cringing. They are still recovering from their mass shooting a few years ago. Some scandal related to that was unfolding in the news this last summer.

I guess it's a good thing that--despite how seemingly common these stories are--we are stunned and disturbed each time.

Fort Hood / Killeen had already been the site of one of the worst mass murders in US history in 1991.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_massacre

also from your wiki cite re the 1991 murders:

I"m just saying, I'm sure these places are delighted to share this commonality.

I can't begin to express the rage that I feel for this man. Ironically, he is now extubated (off a breathing machine) at Brook Army Medical Center, being treated by army soldiers, like the ones that he killed. Many of whom, have deployed multiple times to iraq or afghanistan, and saved hundreds of muslim lives in their journeys.

Being here right now, I can't begin to express my rage and anger.

Especially because we will likely have to do another few hours on death by power point training as a result.

God bless the lady cop for not allowing this ****sucker to kill himself. She is a true hero and I hope she makes a full recovery. Hopefully the chickenshit does too so WE can kill him.