I was so hoping the shooter would have a name like Smith or Jenkins or something.
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'Potential'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Nov 05, 2009 1:06:51 pm PST #17433 of 30001
brillig
bon bon - Nov 05, 2009 1:08:14 pm PST #17434 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
As soon as his name was released, the CNN commentator speculated about an "ideology" that may have been motivating him; Blitzer picked up the terminology pretty soon after. So it's in the air. The Pentagon was asking people not to speculate about motive a bit before the name was released, I assume that was why.
Hil R. - Nov 05, 2009 1:09:19 pm PST #17435 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I hate people. [link] At an anti-healthcare-reform protest, someone holds a large sign with the caption "National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945” and a photo of a pile of dead bodies.
msbelle - Nov 05, 2009 1:10:09 pm PST #17436 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
And now's when I start getting nervous for my highschool peeps who still live in tx with surnames: nasir, wassef, nasser, moussafa...
bon bon - Nov 05, 2009 1:19:32 pm PST #17437 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Hasan was an MD who worked in mental health issues.
flea - Nov 05, 2009 1:21:21 pm PST #17438 of 30001
information libertarian
NPR reporting the deceased shooter may have been an MD - which would fit with his being a Major.
We had a campus alert this afternoon too - armed and dangerous fugitive - and the BEST source of information was the student paper Twitter account. Probably one guy with a police scanner. (There was a murder at a small shopping center near campus, and they thought the perp was possibly on the campus golf course, but he turned up suicide in another county within a couple of hours.)
Barb - Nov 05, 2009 1:23:16 pm PST #17439 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
From USA Today:
A law enforcement official who spoke to AP said Hasan, believed to be in his late 30s, was killed after opening fire at the base and was an Army mental health professional.
flea - Nov 05, 2009 1:27:08 pm PST #17440 of 30001
information libertarian
You know, so often when there's a mass shooting, there's a population that starts saying, "Well, if only everyone were armed, if you could carry guns on school campuses, this wouldn't be able to happen." But this happened on an Army base , where presumably everybody is both fricken armed and knows how to actually shoot the guns.
Stephanie - Nov 05, 2009 1:28:31 pm PST #17441 of 30001
Trust my rage
I wonder if MAJ Hassan worked at the SRP site. I am a little surprised the guy was a major and that he was working with other people.
Stephanie - Nov 05, 2009 1:30:43 pm PST #17442 of 30001
Trust my rage
But no one is armed on an Army base. All military weapons are locked up very tightly and you aren't allowed to bring personal weapons on post. I mean, you can sneak them on of course.
Having said that, this sort of thing is why Im glad we don't live on post.
Eta: I was responding to flea.