RachelWatch: Shootings at Fort Hood

on Ft.Bragg that happened years ago. Still waiting word on some people, but hopefully they are alright. Prayers continue to go out to the victims and their families.

If the shooter was really that mad about being harrassed for being middle eastern and muslim does he really think that this was gonna make it all better for others like him........if anything it's gonna get kicked up a notch or two.

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 A lot of people who want to join the military already come into the military  w/ mental health issues, but they're stable enough to try and hide it. If you add external factors to an internal one such as Smith from Rolling Stone said like substance abuse, all the person needs to make them go AWOL is a trigger factor. Usually there are tell-tale signs of this.  What the military will not  admit is the fact they know this issue is there, but they choose to ignore it.  There is no difference with this shooting compared to school shootings. 

People got to learn to speak- up when they get a feeling someone else isn't right in the head. If you don't, incidents and shootings like these will continue to occur over and over again. 

This event  is sad. I hope the families of these victims will come together and create a support group and raise concerns about this issue to our government. 

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at all. There are people with real mental problems in the military but he is not one of them. This guy is a terrorist of sound mind and body who knew exactly what he was doing. 

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So anyone of sound mind who shoots and kills doesn't have a mental issue such as depression?  Depression is a mental issue, according to the AMA.  This guy may knew what he was doing so did countless others who kill, but normal people don't go around killing folks.

We don't know the real reason behind these killings? We can't assume that he's a terrorist.  We don't have all the facts yet. 

Anybody who kills has a mental health issue. Something ticked him off. 

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 You caught me on that.  I should have clarified myself.  My use of the word mental is not the same as yours.  I use the word mental all the time when referring to people who are crazy in killing for no reason.  I take it personally b/c both my brother and cousin were killed. 

So you caught me. I apologize for offending you. You're right I think of people using a gun to defend themselves when being attacked. They necessarily may not have mental health issue.   

Sometimes I'll write an overstatement. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Have a blessed day! =). 

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Technically an attack against a military base isn't a terrorist attack, terrorism is usually defined as violence to harm civilians in pursuit of a political goal. (Insurgents in Iraq are often wrongly described as such but when they target soldiers they're actually committing acts of war, not terror. Then of course there are acts of terror committed by the military against civilians, such as Mai Lai, but we usually call those war crimes). It seems from what I've read that his action was a cowardly/psychotic reaction to trauma. He's been said to have been disturbed by stories he heard from counseling PSTD clients. He was anxious about being deployed and he no doubt reacted extremely to the Islamophobia of other soldiers. He doesn't appear to have joined the army to carry out a plot.

While I think that this man has no excuse and his crime is beyond evil, I wouldn't call it a terrorist attack so much as a workplace attack. He killed people he worked with rather than walking into an unknown building with a bomb. He wrote apologistically about suicide bombing but they say this all only happened in the past year, indicating a dramatic, perhaps psychotic change. He had also worked for the military for at least 8 years without incident. If he were part of a terror network I wonder why he didn't use his military clearance to secure larger weapons at an earlier date. 

I'll be interested to hear if he had any connections, because that would change my perception. 

Good on the woman who shot him 4 times while getting wounded in the process. That's a pretty amazing feat.

If Hassan survives I really doubt he'll see the light of day again, but I can see why fears that he might use mental unsoundness as a defense could discourage people from wanting to consider him mentally unsound. He still could be unstable; I guess this will be resolved as the investigation continues and if he's interviewed afterward.

I found an interesting article about al qaeda wanting to claim the event without yet (if ever) having any evidence:

http://gawker.com/5400614/how-the-ft-hood-shooter-brings-radical-clerics...