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11-5-2009 6:32 PM
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11-5-2009 7:19 PM
Jorjor
This makes me think of the people who said that the Virginia Tech shootings might have been prevented or caused less harm if the students and faculty had been armed. However, if they can't stop a guy from shooting 43 people on an army base full of trained soldiers, how could they expect students and faculty members with little or no training to do the same?

It's time now to step back and let the FBI and ACID do their work. Like Seung-Hui Cho, the main shooter is dead, so answers as to his motives can only be inferred, not elicited. In the wake of such an incident, many assumptions get made, and, once public, are hard to overcome. One blog called Cho a "chinaman" who was a recent immigra...
11-5-2009 7:44 PM
ratilfar
I believe you are right, on all counts.
11-5-2009 9:19 PM
Jorjor
Update: At the press conference, it was announced that the Major Hasan was not dead, and that one of the responders who was reported dead is also alive. This underscores what I said in my earlier comment about letting the investigators do their work before drawing conclusions.

Other information is that the major was the lone shooter, and that one person who was being held was released.
11-5-2009 9:37 PM
ratilfar
But we already have people focusing on his name as if that somehow gives us a clue to his motive or what really happened today.
11-5-2009 11:25 PM
bignosemousie
But we already have people focusing on his name as if that somehow gives us a clue to his motive or what really happened today.
Hopefully, if he survives, he can tell us what he was thinking, his motivation.
11-6-2009 7:17 AM
ratilfar
I'll wait for the results of the investigation and trial. But I doubt others will.
11-6-2009 10:08 AM
Steve Savage
REMARKABLE SIMILARITIES

1. Doctor (Major) Nidal Hassan, age 38, is a U.S. born Muslim. He acted alone without an accomplice. He was involved with treating post traumatic stress victims of Iraq War violence. (readers may fill in the rest.)

2. February 25, 1994, another US-born doctor, this one of Jewish descent, Baruch Goldstein, 38, wearing the uniform of an army reservist, burst into a Mosque in Hebron, as people gathered for Friday morning prayers, and fired up to 100 bullets at worshipers, killing between 30 and 54 Palestinians.

He was involved in treating victims of Arab-Israeli violence.It is reported that his hatred became so intense that eventually he refused to treat Palestinian...
11-6-2009 11:35 AM
Kreuzberg-Jakob
Hi ratifar! Nice to meet you !

What a time do you thin do they need for an investigation to clear the basic facts:
How many persons did shoot and kill?
What did occur before the shooting?
I'm sure, they know it already. If two men ran Amok at one day - as we read was a time of hours gone between the shots, also won't 1 person be able to do it (or do you think, that a drugged insane pride-of his-homeland-and-flag idiot can resist the half US-army in weapons for hours?!
MP and other police units locked the whole district - this makes me believe, that they have to hide and veil something.
But on the other eye and sie of my brain I know, that it is usual in every accident or govern...
11-7-2009 12:03 AM
darkeforce
Proof again that owning a gun isn't going to protect you from anything. Can we get the NRA to finally shut the hell up about that lie now?
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