Fort Hood Redux

[Uncle Sparky]

Fort Hood said Wednesday that a shooting happened at the Texas Army base and that injuries have been reported.

The base confirmed the shooting in a brief statement posted online Wednesday. The statement also said emergency crews were on the scene and that further details were not yet known.

The Bell's County Sheriff's Office dispatched deputies and troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety to the nearby post after receiving reports of an "active shooter," sheriff's Lt. Donnie Adams said. FBI spokeswoman Michelle Lee said its agents were also headed to the scene.

Why Fort Hood again?

Shooter still at large.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Something to do with the name? Something to do with being in a reactionary state? None of the above?

[Ben Kenobi]

Something to do with being in a reactionary state?

Something to do with radical Islam?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Something to do with bigotry, Ben?

[Ben Kenobi]

Something to do with bigotry, Ben?

Since when are facts bigotry? Hasan was an Islamic terrorist. Hasan massacred 13 innocents.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Since angry young white men like you opened their mouths.

If this was a Moslem, it was a really stupid one.

[DinoDoc]

Why Fort Hood again?

Gun free zone.

[Ben Kenobi]

Since angry young white men like you opened their mouths.

Right. Nidal Hasan suffered 'sudden Jihadi syndrome' and was thus not responsible for his actions, despite the fact that he planned for it meticulously.

The good thing is that Texas has a policy, if you kill a Texan they kill you.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

IIRC, Hasan was susposedly motivated by being PO'ed about prejudice he claimed to have encountered.

Does any of this strike you as ironic, Ben?

[Ben Kenobi]

Hasan was susposedly motivated by being PO'ed about prejudice he claimed to have encountered.

Oh. I see. Just like rapists are motivated by women wearing tight clothes.

Nidal Hasan planned the massacre for a long time. He didn't get liquored up one night and stop over at Guns R Us, and then pull into Ft. Hood on a bender. They should bring out Ol' Sparky again, and feed him to feral hogs. Then he can enjoy his 72 virgins sooner.

Does any of this strike you as ironic, Ben?

What? That 13 innocents died in what ought to be the safest place in America? I don't know about you, but if someone were to go to a military base and start killing servicemen, most nations would take that pretty serious.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Yeah.

Maybe, just maybe, this mass murder of strangers fad is more interesting than your bias?

[Ben Kenobi]

mass murder of strangers fad

Right. It's a mystery as to why a radical islamist would target an American military base.

If only we had Columbo to solve this case.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Well, if you went on about your hard-on against mass murderers, I could totally get behind that.

[Ben Kenobi]

Well, if you went on about your hard-on against mass murderers, I could totally get behind that.

I would love to see you write to the families who lost some of their members and explain to them how Texas had it coming.

[Dinner]

And nothing will ever change because the gun nuts are more interested in enabling the violent gun nuts than they are in making sure only responsible people can get their hands on guns.