Another shooting

Well, this one’s a little more close to home. Fort Hood was in the news all yesterday because of a soldier, about to be deployed, went wacko and killed 12 other people.

From what I’ve read (and they can easily be wrong), he didn’t want to be deployed to Iraq or wherever he was about to go. So he showed his disagreement by killing other soldiers, who also probably didn’t want to go.

Then, he was shot at least once. He is alive, in contrast to all the early news reports that he shot himself dead (big surprise). He killed 12 people. He was a psychiatrist, and apparently had some experience working with soldiers with PTSD.

He was also a Muslim. And now all the American-Muslim associations are coming out to “condemn” the attacks, for fear that this is going to taint the spotless Muslim-American public relation. Well, it is. See, the guy had talked about suicide bombing on the intarweb, comparing it to “jumping on the grenade” (a real grenade, not a fat chick).

Well, I’m sorry, but if they don’t want me to make the connection, they better have a better explanation than some knee-jerk “oh, but don’t blame is Muslim faith”, when so far, all the evidence points towards either his angst towards deployment, or his faith. But, I won’t go out and stone, or even give an evil eye to, Muslims now. I’ll wait till the reports are in.

And now, to the gun problem. No, the other gun problem:

“As a matter of practice, we don’t carry weapons here, this is our home,” said Cone.

Congratulations. You just let some wacko kill 12 people because of this practice. From what I can tell, the killings went on until an MP shot the suspect. A base full of qualified people, and the only one’s carrying were the bad guy and one military policeman. Congratulations.