|
11-06-2009, 04:51 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
218 posts, read 117,476 times
Reputation: 89
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Avengerfire
Wow. How did this happen?
|
That's unbelievable!!
I thought these things did not happen in the USA.
What is happen??
Why american soldiers are killing american soldiers??
I think everybody is crazy.
|
|
11-06-2009, 05:41 AM
|
|
Junior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2009
Reputation: 12
|
|
Ft. Hood horror
Now that rumors are being eliminated and facts are coming out, it is evident the lone shooter, a psychiatrist and Major, had planned this well. Per family members, he joined the miliary after high school in order to pursue a medical degree but, feared deployment to foreign lands yet was unable to find a way out without losing benefits. So, he finds another way out... by murdering fellow comrades. Being a psychiatrist, we can expect a plea of temporary insanity and a sentence to be served in a mental institution and that will be the travesty of this thing since it is obviously a premeditated act, for which I hope the coward hangs.
(As a side note, some media immediately jumped on the PTSD as a cause for this horror but, the Major had never seen service outside the U.S. New rule for media should be to wait for at least SOME facts and nix the speculation.)
|
|
11-06-2009, 07:27 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2008
5,779 posts, read 2,993,566 times
Reputation: 7880
|
|
Fort Hood Tragedy
My heart just breaks for all the families and friends that have been effected by this senseless tragedy.
Lowering our flag half mast on the flag pole just now, just brought tears to my eyes. 
Last edited by 2goldens; 11-06-2009 at 08:39 AM..
Reason: Moved from Other Topics
|
|
11-06-2009, 07:36 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Where the meaning of cold is down right frigid.
24,356 posts, read 4,739,538 times
Reputation: 15220
|
|
|
This is so tragic. Why not just take yourself "out" instead of hurting so very many.
|
|
11-06-2009, 07:40 AM
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Matthews, NC
5,092 posts, read 1,509,720 times
Reputation: 3413
|
|
|
What Lacey said.
Why take a bunch of people out with you? Why not just shoot yourself and save everyone else a lot of grief? I guess it is hard to understand the actions of someone who is mentally ill.
|
|
11-06-2009, 07:44 AM
|
|
Never moving again!
Status:
"2010 bring on the good stuff!!"
(set 7 days ago)
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: NW NC
8,096 posts, read 1,627,923 times
Reputation: 16770
|
|
|
Horrible tragedy.
|
|
11-06-2009, 07:49 AM
|
|
Just a simple country gal.
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calif.
10,189 posts, read 5,137,413 times
Reputation: 12899
|
|
This is the type of thing that worries me about my kid. I think he almost was sent there last year but was sent elsewhere instead. But still, other families had to suffer. It really was senseless.  And it could happen anywhere at anytime. Its happened on college and high school campuses. |
|
11-06-2009, 08:15 AM
|
|
Senior Member
Status:
"Happy 2010!"
(set 6 days ago)
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: In South Carolina, but sometimes elsewhere
2,099 posts, read 374,233 times
Reputation: 6480
|
|
|
I will never understand such things...
|
|
11-06-2009, 08:18 AM
|
|
Beltway Brat
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Houston-Memorial & Cherokee County
4,822 posts, read 3,249,305 times
Reputation: 1017
|
|
|
I think it's amazing that he made the Anti-American/Anti-Military statements that he made, and are being reported, and he wasn't kicked out of the service. WE ARE FAR TOO PC in this country.
I'm sure they feared a backlash for throwing a Muslim/Islamic soldier out for making such statements. I guess to PC Society, what's a few deaths as long as you don't offend anyone.
|
|
11-06-2009, 08:50 AM
|
|
Real Estate Agent
Status:
"Looking forward to 2010!"
(set 10 days ago)
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Central Texas
7,759 posts, read 4,580,310 times
Reputation: 2665
|
|
|
I'm definitely one for thinking we've gotten entirely too PC in this country, but there is that tacky old free speech thing in the Constitution that is one of the more important things that this country is built on.
|
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
|
|
Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 700,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 15,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. 
Linear Mode
