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Slingstone
04-02-2014, 16:00
Broke about half an hour ago.
http://www.kcentv.com/story/25146842/reports-of-shooting-on-fort-hood
Utah Bob
04-02-2014, 16:38
Being reported right now as an active shooter situation. At least two shot. Central Texas College campus being evaced. A Pfc on post just talked to CNN on his cell. He didn't know anything. Guess he wanted to be on tv. No other details.
Slingstone
04-02-2014, 16:47
This was published yesterday.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/01/military-hunts-one-time-recruit-planning-ft-hood-style-jihad/
“On 20 March 2014, the Kansas City Division FBI became aware of an individual named BOOKER aka Muhammad Abdullah Hassan who had publicly stated his intention to commit jihad, bidding farewell to his friends and making comments indicating his jihad was imminent. BOOKER had been recruited by the US Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for Basic Training on 7 April 2014. Kansas City Division Agents interviewed BOOKER on 20 March 2014.”
Utah Bob
04-02-2014, 17:05
CNN: 1 shooter neutralized. At least 8 casualties so far.
Hmmm, there seems to be a pattern here and it doesn't involve Christians. :munchin
ABC News says 4 dead including the shooter (a soldier).
Sad.
Richard
3 Victims, Gunman Dead After Fort Hood Shooting
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Active-Shooter-Reported-at-Fort-Hood-253636461.html
Giving his name as "..... 34-year-old enlisted Army soldier Ivan Lopez......and that the shooting may have resulted from an argument with other soldiers in the motor pool...."
blacksmoke
04-02-2014, 20:55
Fort Hood, a weapons free zone. I don't argue that everyone should be walking around armed, but maybe more trained shooters than are available to protect the population now.
"...34-year-old soldier Ivan Lopez..."
"We do not know a motive," Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley told reporters at a press conference Wednesday night. "But we know this soldier to have behavioral health and mental health issues.”
http://news.yahoo.com/fort-hood-shooting-222528983.html;_ylt=AwrTcdLn1DxTO1AAxRwPxQt.;_ylu= X3oDMTBsOXB2YTRjBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkAw--
"...., but was being evaluated for PTSD.
The suspect used a .45 caliber Smith & Wesson semi automatic pistol that had been purchased recently, Milley said....."
:confused: Prayers out...
Sad situation. :(
Anybody know LTG Mark Milley, the lll Corps Cdr? His bio says 5th SFG and would have placed him there circa 82-84 time frame, possibly on a combat dive team.
Richard
tom kelly
04-03-2014, 14:37
Sad situation, Prayers out to loved ones of the deceased, and injured. TK
Patrick Cook
My letter to Congress, read today at Texas Senate committee on Constitutional Carry. It is now public record.
To my friends, fellow Texans, brothers in arms, members of the committee, and everyone within the sound of my voice, greetings.
My name is First Lieutenant Patrick Cook of the 49th Transportation Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, and this past Wednesday I found myself trapped in an enclosed room with fourteen of my fellow Soldiers, one of whom was barricading the door against a madman with a .45 pistol when he was fatally shot. Through what I can only describe as a miracle, he somehow found enough strength to continue pushing against that door until the shooter gave up and went elsewhere, at which time he collapsed. Nearly a week later, I can still taste his blood in my mouth from when I and my comrades breathed into his lungs for 20 long minutes while we waited for a response from the authorities. This Soldier’s name was Sergeant First Class Daniel Ferguson, and his sacrifice loaned me the rest of my life to tell this story.
But I write to you today not to memorialize this brave Soldier, nor to tell a war story about how we made the best of a losing situation, but to express the part of that story that some in high positions of power clearly do not want told: I knew this was going to happen. I had been saying for five years that Fort Hood was a tinderbox of another massacre waiting to happen. It had to happen, because our betters failed to learn the obvious lesson of five years ago. Worse yet, I know it will happen again. More will die, more will be wounded, more families will be torn apart, needlessly. It happened again, and will happen again, because Fort Hood is a gun free zone.
When the first shots rang out, my hand reached to my belt for something that wasn’t there. Something that could have put a stop to the bloodshed, could have made it merely an “ugly incident” instead of the horrific massacre that I will surely remember as the darkest twenty minutes of my life. Stripped of my God-given Right to arm myself, the only defensive posture I had left was to lie prostrate on the ground, and wait to die. As the shooter kicked at the door, I remember telling myself, “oh well, this is it.” It is beneath human dignity to experience the utter helplessness I felt that day. I cannot abide the thought that anyone should ever feel that again.
At the point blank range at which this shooting occurred, anyone with an M9 and some basic instruction could have ended the mayhem as quickly as it began. An MP by trade and a CHL holder, I am convinced that concealed weapons would have stopped it, but openly carried side-arms, like the ones carried in a law enforcement capacity, could have prevented it entirely. Instead, many more died because of the fatally misguided restrictions on the carrying of arms, which obviously the madman did not respect.
I shall conclude by restating my warning. This will happen again, and again until we learn the lesson that suppressing the bearing of arms doesn’t prevent horrific crimes, it invites them. To those of you who hold elected office, if you hear nothing else I have told you, hear this: you have the power to stop the next massacre from happening. You have an opportunity to restore the sacred Right to bear arms, which has been either stripped entirely or unjustly relegated to the poor substitute of a probationary, government-issued privilege. For God’s sake, do the right thing.
Thank you for your attention, and good day.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/08/read-the-powerful-letter-a-fort-hood-solider-penned-asking-for-his-god-given-right-to-arm-himself-on-base/
That letter is spot on. Sadly, he is correct about it happening again. I don't see the powers that be blessing off on widespread carry CONUS. It's ok when your deployed, but not at home because we are safe here.
Loadsmasher
04-10-2014, 09:03
That letter is spot on. Sadly, he is correct about it happening again. I don't see the powers that be blessing off on widespread carry CONUS. It's ok when your deployed, but not at home because we are safe here.
Then why did the President need a double stacked wall of connex's while speaking at "The Great Place"?