Everyone is concentrating on whether we could have foretold that Hasan would have committed his mass murders, based on what he was known to have said and done in the past.
But no one is examining why he was able to go on shooting, firing more than 100 shots, reloading time and again, without being stopped...
on an Army base!!!
The place was full of
soldiers, wasn't it? Particularly the room where he did his murders. He was shooting
soldiers.
Aren't soldiers people who have guns, by definition? People who are trained in their use? Then how on earth could this guy calmly going on firing at them, firing, reloading, firing some more, reloading again, firing some more, ad infinitum, without being taken out after the first few shots??
For that matter, if Hasan wanted to commit mass murder, and needed a place full of people where he could be sure of having plenty of time to do all the shooting, reloading, etc. that such deeds require without anybody being able to interfere and stop him before he racks up a truly impressive body count... you'd think the LAST place he'd pick was a U.S. Army base, full of
soldiers.
Yet that's exactly the place he did pick. Why not a shopping mall, or a Post office, or a school? Places where people are forbidden to bring guns, as so many mass murderers before him chose, and with such great success? Whatever made him think he could engage in a long shooting spree witout interference, on an
Army base???
Yep. As the old saying goes... and keeps being found true... when you come up against a completely inexplicable situation that makes no sense, and want to know why it's so, the reason is almost always....
Government.
One of the first things Bill Clinton did when he assumed office in 1993, was to disarm U.S. soldiers on our military bases.
So, not one of the many dozens of
soldiers in the room, trained in the use of weapons for their own defense and to control attackers, had their weapons with them. And Hasan knew they wouldn't.
The gun-rights-haters have successfully made sure of the deaths of fourteen more victims (one of the murdered soldiers was a pregnant woman, whose infant also died).
How many more will die in the future, due to the haters' insistence that they be left disarmed (even
soldiers trained in the use of weapons) in an imperfect, dangerous world?
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VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: What stops mass murderers? A gun - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com
What stops mass murderers? A gun
by Vin Suprynowicz
Nov. 15, 2009
Hasan reportedly had fired more than 100 rounds, requiring him to change handgun magazines several times -- Sgt. Todd said Hasan was reloading again when he shot the suspect. Why didn't any of the hundreds of Army personnel in the room shoot back, ending his killing spree far sooner?
Because they couldn't.
Among President Bill Clinton's first acts upon taking office in 1993 "was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases," the Washington Times points out.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
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What stops a mass murderer? A gun.
