Another Fort Hood shooting

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02 Apr 2014, 5:56 pm

I honestly don't know what it is with Fort Hood and violence. From what I understand, there may be 2 shooters but one was taken into custody.

http://news.yahoo.com/fort-hood-says-sh ... 07447.html

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02 Apr 2014, 8:26 pm

ABC is saying 4 people killed including the gunman.

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03 Apr 2014, 2:04 am

when will this country learn?

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03 Apr 2014, 8:02 am

I would think of all places where shootings shouldn't occur, a fort is one of them, specifically this one. Maybe it's not as tightly locked down as other ones around the country?

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03 Apr 2014, 8:53 am

I think the military has to come up with better methods of treating the mentally ill, PTSD and brain injury. They should be vigilant because their personnel have access to and are trained to use multiple weapons.

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03 Apr 2014, 9:52 am

The shooter didn't happen to be an adherent of the Religion of Peace this time.

Another Breivik, perhaps?

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03 Apr 2014, 1:01 pm

too damned bad he didn't grab a chocolate bar instead of that infernal gun.

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03 Apr 2014, 1:21 pm

The media is blaming drugs this time. They're saying he was high on 'Ambien'.

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03 Apr 2014, 1:27 pm

dirty little open secret, is that the army is routinely drugging its soldiers, pepping 'em up during the mission/day and calming 'em back down at downtime/night.

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03 Apr 2014, 2:42 pm

People have drove around when they were asleep on Ambien.Not saying that's what happened here.I believe stimulants are given in the military at times,to keep people operating expensive equipment awake.

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03 Apr 2014, 9:06 pm

Well, not to belittle the deaths and injuries, but thankfully no one's going to blame Asperger's this time.

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03 Apr 2014, 9:16 pm

I sometimes wonder when god's gonna throw up god's hands.

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03 Apr 2014, 10:13 pm

auntblabby wrote:

I sometimes wonder when god's gonna throw up god's hands.

Talk about mixing yer metaphors.

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03 Apr 2014, 10:20 pm

Prof_Pretorius wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

I sometimes wonder when god's gonna throw up god's hands.

Talk about mixing yer metaphors.

at least I didn't ascribe any gender.

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04 Apr 2014, 7:48 am

auntblabby wrote:

dirty little open secret, is that the army is routinely drugging its soldiers, pepping 'em up during the mission/day and calming 'em back down at downtime/night.

But the shooter here was never in any active combat, at least that what all the reports say.

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04 Apr 2014, 10:33 am

Probably a bad thing that I'm becoming more apathetic toward these shootings. Is it just me or do they feel less like a tragedy and more like a first world problem?

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