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12 killed, plus gunman in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas

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  • 05-11-2009 10:52pm
    #1
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭


    Here we go again!!

    Just breaking on CNN, not many details as yet.

    *edit* Shooter was a soldier.


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    #2
    Bandit12
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    Here we go again?


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    #3
    humberklog
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    Is there a sports and weather update to follow?


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    #4
    partyatmygaff
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    Why is it always america?


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    dr.bollocko
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    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.

    NBC News network said the two suspects were in military uniform and that the shooter-at-large was believed to have a high-powered sniper rifle.

    Fort Hood, near the town of Killeen, is the largest US base in the world.

    Home to about 40,000 US troops, the base lies between Austin and Waco, about 60 miles (97 km) from each city.

    It is not yet clear whether those killed and injured are civilians or military personnel.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8345713.stm


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    jif
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    Nothing like Autumn and Spring to bring out the loonies


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    jif
    Closed Accounts Posts: 340 ✭✭jif


    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Why is it always america?

    cause they have the biggest proportion of asshats on the planet.


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    MagicMarker
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    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8345713.stm
    31 injured!? Jebus.


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    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Bandit12 wrote: »
    Here we go again?
    Yeah, you may have been living under a rock for the past 10 years, but this isn't the first mass murder in America. :)


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    #10
    jif
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    call in the military! - oh no wait they've shut the base and ran away


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    #11
    Mark200
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    Obama to talk about it in a minute.


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    Rented Mule
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    12 killed, plus gunman in a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas

    That's one more than the sex offender in Ohio....and it took him two years less in the process.

    That's progress.


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    K-Ren
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    Suspect was last seen hanging his hat in Tennesse.


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    #14
    RMD
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    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Why is it always america?

    Easy access to firearms and a shoot first think later mentallity would be my guess.


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    omahaid
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    Overheal wrote: »
    Only in Amer- Oh wait...

    Nope, it is this time.


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    Jax Teller
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    jif wrote: »
    call in the military! - oh no wait they've shut the base and ran away

    It was the military


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    Jax Teller
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    Hassan malik was his name


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    Nodin
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    RMD wrote: »
    Easy access to firearms and a shoot first think later mentallity would be my guess.

    Well, according to the latest update, they were soldiers from the base so yes, but no...but yes.


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    brendansmith
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    There are questions over if it was war stress. Which is understandable given that they have been fighting 2 different wars for 8 years


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    Jax Teller
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    brendansmith wrote: »
    There are questions over if it was war stress. Which is understandable given that they have been fighting 2 different wars for 8 years

    Understandable to kill 12 ppl ?


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    Mossy Monk
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    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Why is it always america?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7936817.stm


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    #22
    Mmcd
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    keysersoze_88 wrote: »
    Hassan malik was his name
    ee eye, ee eye oh!


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    #23
    Jax Teller
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    Mmcd wrote: »
    ee eye, ee eye oh!

    Wat does that mean ?


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    #24
    imeddyhobbs
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    this one might be a terrorist attack


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    latenia
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMb0S8EQxTE


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    Insect Overlord
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    Scary stuff.


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    #27
    furiousox
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    Nah just someone who's mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore

    CPL 593H



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    #28
    kincsem
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    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    Why is it always america?

    Just defending themselves. Its in the constitution.


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    #29
    Overheal
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    12+ Dead and we're joking about it. 2 Hours later.

    But god help you if you wanted to crack one about Jade ****ing Goody.
    omahaid wrote: »
    Nope, it is this time.
    The term for it is actually Fragging. Usually relating to mutiny.

    It is also quite retarded (nay, completely retarded) to assume this only happens in One Country of hundreds.
    jif wrote: »
    cause they have the biggest proportion of asshats on the planet.
    Care to back that with empirical evidence?
    imeddyhobbs wrote: »
    this one might be a terrorist attack
    Too early to tell either way. It could just as easily have been a soldier gone cracked. Hopefully we'll get more facts before this becomes a total trash thread.


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    #30
    The_Kew_Tour
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    Scary, but these things are going keep happening. Of course thats not much good to the people killed.


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    #31
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    School/work place shootings happeen as often in Europe as in America. There was a BBC report on it awhile back. The American killings get more coverage given that any European News reporter can spin a hundred stories out of each one.


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