The crazy bone in the country’s body is the right to bear arms. From The New York Times:
The rampage recalled other mass shootings in the United States, including 13 killed at a center for immigrants in upstate New York last April, the deaths of 10 during a gunman’s rampage in Alabama in March, and 32 people killed at Virginia Tech, the deadliest shooting in modern American history.
The shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is a psychiatrist. Where did he get the guns and why did he have them?
Again, The NYT:
“He could have just brought (them) onto the installation,” Colonel Rossi said.
We know what will happen next. Any Muslim who knows Hasan, especially one who sympathized with his doubts about U.S. policy in the Middle East, will be in for a harrowing experience. All it takes is an email saying, “I hear you, brother.” Who doesn’t have doubts? We’re in the wrong. Of course the government needs to investigate. What they won’t investigate is the thing that makes carnage easy:
Justin Colt Beckman, digital collage of the artist’s face on found photograph
Karen Ganz, even in our dreams
Speaking of carnage: today in Seattle, here.
Roy Lichtenstein, Gun in America
Update: From Orlando, more shootings today, here. Easy access to guns makes the entire country a war zone. Deadly violence can pop up anywhere, in any church, business, home or on any sidewalk. And from the department of stupid headlines, from the Houston Chronicle about the Fort Worth Hood shootings: Motive is Biggest Unknown. Motive is biggest unknown? Hasan’s motives are obvious, although it would take Shakespeare to plumb their depths.
I’m Ok with God, guns AND gays.
Dear Husky. Two out of three ain’t bad. Your friendship with god and gays might help you ease your finger off the trigger.
Gun ownership does not make someone violent. Do you think Americans are more violent than others because of guns? Guns are everywhere. So are knives. The problem in Fort Worth was not that this person got ahold of a gun. He is the problem.
Maybe you’re all tied into that 24-hour news cycle I’m always hearing about, but I live in Fort Worth & there wasn’t anything in this morning’s paper about any inordinate shootings. Rather than turn on the TV, I’m going to assume that y’all’re thinking of Fort Hood (which is a little less than a hundred miles away) & writing Fort Worth.
Maybe I’m a fool, but I think I’ll risk going out without body armor this afternoon.
“… Branas’s study found that people who carried guns were 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17922-carrying-a-gun-increases-risk-of-getting-shot-and-killed.html
Wishful thinking from the left again. Thankfully this right is in the constitution. Oh btw big brother cant solve all our problems of our nation.