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#1 Nov 05 2009 at 3:59 PM Rating: Good

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Twelve shot dead at US army base

Twelve people have been killed and 31 injured in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, a US Army spokesman has said.

One person has been arrested and at least one more is on the run, officials said. The base has been locked down.

Taliban in Texas?

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#2 Nov 05 2009 at 4:12 PM Rating: Excellent

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This raises an interesting wrinkle in the theory that if students were armed, the recent school shootings would have been ended before so many people had died.

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#3 Nov 05 2009 at 4:15 PM Rating: Excellent

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trickybeck wrote:

This raises an interesting wrinkle in the theory that if students were armed, the recent school shootings would have been ended before so many people had died.

Well in all fairness, wasn't the number of dead two or three times this at Virginia Tech? Sort of sad that our students can do a proper murder spree better than our soldiers. Makes me wonder what they're spending my tax dollars on.

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#4 Nov 05 2009 at 4:19 PM Rating: Excellent

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32 dead at VT.

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#5 Nov 05 2009 at 4:20 PM Rating: Excellent

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Barkingturtle wrote:

trickybeck wrote:

This raises an interesting wrinkle in the theory that if students were armed, the recent school shootings would have been ended before so many people had died.

Well in all fairness, wasn't the number of dead two or three times this at Virginia Tech? Sort of sad that our students can do a proper murder spree better than our soldiers. Makes me wonder what they're spending my tax dollars on.

So the moral of this story is that if we'd sent the boys from "Kappa Phi Omega" to Afghanistan, Osama would be sharing his balloon knot with tattoo'd gang-bangers in some West Coast state penitentiary.

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#6 Nov 05 2009 at 4:23 PM Rating: Good

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Barkingturtle wrote:

trickybeck wrote:

This raises an interesting wrinkle in the theory that if students were armed, the recent school shootings would have been ended before so many people had died.

Well in all fairness, wasn't the number of dead two or three times this at Virginia Tech? Sort of sad that our students can do a proper murder spree better than our soldiers. Makes me wonder what they're spending my tax dollars on.

True, 32 vs 12 deaths at this point, although we also don't know how the shooters were subdued yet.

'Course, I don't really want to trivialize the event by turning it into a policy debate, or make the foolish mistake of extrapolating a freak event into some broader conclusions. I'll let other posters do that instead.

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#7 REDACTED, Posted: Nov 05 2009 at 4:31 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Imagine the death toll in Va if there had been numerous students with high powered rifles going on the killing spree.

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#8 Nov 05 2009 at 4:35 PM Rating: Good

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Imagine the death toll in Va if there had been numerous students with high powered rifles going on the killing spree.

Thinking about endorsing gun control are you?

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#9 Nov 05 2009 at 4:35 PM Rating: Good

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Probably upset about the gay marriage vote.

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#10 Nov 05 2009 at 4:42 PM Rating: Good

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Well in all fairness, wasn't the number of dead two or three times this at Virginia Tech? Sort of sad that our students can do a proper murder spree better than our soldiers. Makes me wonder what they're spending my tax dollars on.

I know right? Is it too much work for them to lay traps, manipulate the warning systems and control the panicked flow of people into kill zones? Maybe this guy was mad he failed basic training.

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#11 REDACTED, Posted: Nov 05 2009 at 4:59 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Ugly,

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#12 Nov 05 2009 at 5:00 PM Rating: Good

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One of them was a muslim apparently.

I bloody told you the US was harbouring religious extremists/terrorists!

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#13 Nov 05 2009 at 5:01 PM Rating: Excellent

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One of them was a muslim apparently.

I bloody told you the US was harbouring religious extremists/terrorists!

If it is proven that he was left-handed, then the case is finally made. Death to Southpaws!!!!111!!eleven!!1

You listening Joph?

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#14 Nov 05 2009 at 5:12 PM Rating: Excellent

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From the sound of it, the shooting took place in a facility where soldiers receive physicals & stuff because they're either preparing to be deployed or are returning from deployment. So most of the men weren't armed and I don't know how many guards or whatever were around.

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#15 Nov 05 2009 at 5:14 PM Rating: Decent

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From the sound of it, the shooting took place in a facility where soldiers receive physicals & stuff because they're either preparing to be deployed or are returning from deployment. So most of the men weren't armed and I don't know how many guards or whatever were around.

Well, if ever the case for arming naked men during physicals needed to be made, it's now! "Turn your head, put the rifle down, easy, easy, now cough."

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#16 Nov 05 2009 at 5:17 PM Rating: Excellent

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There was, and I'll happily hope his opinion is a minority one, a guy on the radio ******** up a storm and blaming liberals for the soldiers not being armed at the time. I'm not sure how extensively the liberal machine has affected protocol in the armed forces in regards to having a gun during your medical exam but this guy seemed pretty sure of it.

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#17 Nov 05 2009 at 5:21 PM Rating: Excellent

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Well, if ever the case for arming naked men during physicals needed to be made, it's now! "Turn your head, put the rifle down, easy, easy, now cough."

This is my rifle, this is my gun...

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#18 Nov 05 2009 at 5:23 PM Rating: Good

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As horrible as this story is (and my heart goes out to the families of the victims). I did wonder from the title if the post was about this

Edited, Nov 5th 2009 11:24pm by GwynapNud

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#19 Nov 06 2009 at 8:20 PM Rating: Good

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Timelordwho wrote:

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Well in all fairness, wasn't the number of dead two or three times this at Virginia Tech? Sort of sad that our students can do a proper murder spree better than our soldiers. Makes me wonder what they're spending my tax dollars on.

I know right? Is it too much work for them to lay traps, manipulate the warning systems and control the panicked flow of people into kill zones? Maybe this guy was mad he failed basic training.

Well, he was an officer after all. Had he been enlisted, I bet he would have bagged 3 times the amount easily.

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