So how's is today's shootings going look to the folks that said one gun @ VT would have prevented senseless deaths?-gcti

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Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=billb]
Just cut and paste "suicide bombers are like soldiers throwing themselves on grenades to save their comrades"into a WWW search pane .

Let me guess...that results in this thread being at the top? Actually, no.
But the following sentence in every instance of the propagation notes that it's not confirmed that that blog post is actually Hasan's,

[RgrF]

Dakota wrote:
The moral of the story: When guns are outlawed only Malik Hasan carries guns.

The moral of the story is the military knows it's not a good idea to have loaded weapons in the hands of personnel, even when they are trained in their use.

[mattkime]

>>As I said, the mindset that simply carrying a gun makes you a danger has filtered down to the military it looks like.

DOES THAT MAKE THE MILITARY LIBERAL??

pretty soon they'll be GAY too!!!

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billb wrote:
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[quote=Dakota]
It is doubly sad that some people couldn't wait for ambulances to even reach the morgue before taking cheap political shots. He had posted on blogs that suicide bombers are like soldiers throwing themselves on grenades to save their comrades. We will find a long trail of red flags that were "missed".

Where did you get THAT?
Just cut and paste "suicide bombers are like soldiers throwing themselves on grenades to save their comrades"into a WWW search pane .
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=suicide+bombers+are+like+soldiers+throwing+themselves+on+grenades+to+save+their+comrades&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&rlz=1W1HPIA_en

Like one might do when a link doesn't work.
Very likely not the same guy, since his name is quite common. I notice the righties didn't bring that part of the AP report up.

[OWC Jamie]

Wow, 13 families are mourning and in shock and someone has to turn it into a lefty / righty thing.

[August West]

billb wrote:
Wow, 13 families are mourning and in shock and someone has to turn it into a lefty / righty thing.

Your deep concern for those families is well displayed in your post. Congrats billb.

[decocritter]

I wonder why this guy was not checked for weapons at the gate? Don't they screen? When did this guy enlist?

I am only going on news reports so far, which I don't totally trust at this point:

I also wonder why he was not checked out by FBI and the Base, after his reported internet postings, his verbal protesting of being deployed, along with his reported statements showing bias towards the enemy and against fellow soldiers. Did this guy not know of some American's fear of radicals, in America and in the enemy countries after 911. Why did he enlist in the first place? Did he also not realize that once he was trained, he stood a great chance of deployment?

It also seems he went rogue over time with verbal warnings to many. It also seems like thought he was American, he recently became verbally (and reported internet ) pro radical muslim while talking against American war effort, soldiers and the military.

Is this someone you would want as a Doctor in the American Military after his counseling in Virginia? They should have discharged him when they first got an inkling that he was a looney toon

[Carnos Jax]

Part of the problem (I would guess) is that the military is so desperate for many kinds of personnel, that they over look people with 'mental' issues. A friends husband (whom she divorced because of his stability) reupped in the Air Force as a Major.

[Lux Interior]

decocritter wrote:
I am only going on news reports so far, which I don't totally trust at this point:

And where are you getting your news?

First the man did not enlist. He was a commissioned officer. He was a major. That is not a low rank.

I have not heard anything about these internet postings you speak of (outside of this thread, that is). Nor about this "counseling in VA".

It also seems like thought he was American

Last I checked, Virginia was a part of the US. He was born there. He was a commissioned officer in the Army. WTF are you talking about?

Your entire post reads like "Brown people are Muslims, Muslims are terrorists, Nidal was a terrorist" BS.

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To one of Deco's questions: People who work on the base get stickers for their car. Nidal surely had one of those, and that is why his car was not searched. It used to be, but I am no longer sure about this because it was a long time ago, that people with a commissioned officer sticker could just drive onto any base, though most stopped at the guard house for directions at least.

To another: If I remember correctly Virginia is one of the 13 original states, along with Georgia and 11 others. Virginia got its very own quarter and everything.

"Thought he was an American?" He IS an American. He was born in Virginia. His father was a well-loved restaurateur in Roanoke. Nidal is as American as Timothy McVeigh.