Seven dead, 12 wounded at Ft. Hood base in Texas

My heart is sad. What is going on?

My heart goes out to the families... last I heard there are 7 dead and the number of injured keeps going up

Can we wait for the stupid racial and political nonsense comments at least until AFTER we have more story?

Army Dude from Fort Hood wrote:

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It would be a pretty good guess that they are not in the USMC on the largest Army base in the World, or base of any kind for that matter. Who care what color they are - we have people dying here!

Thank you!
The situation isn't even over yet and people can't help themselves from throwing in political and racial jabs!

*sigh*

kitsha wrote:

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Thank you!
The situation isn't even over yet and people can't help themselves from throwing in political and racial jabs!

Amen to that.

So far (several hours after the shooting, with one assailant apprended) we are not given the name or his nationality. And that is not good news. However, the FBI says (for the moment) no terrorism involved. But I would have to suspect there is a serious reason for the delay/prevention of making the info available to the public.

A friend from Killeen is telling me that there are 15 dead and 20-30 wounded.

What? No blame going to George Bush?

Omg this is soo terrible!! As a military brat I've always felt that a military base is the safest place to be!

My heart goes out to the family and I hope that the survivors are going to be fine.

The security level on all bases will be going up I presume.

observer wrote:

What? No blame going to George Bush?

I'm sure there are several other posts where you can neverendingly talk about Bush since it appears that is what you want to do.

Lots of posts got deleted. This is probably one of the very few times I don't have a problem with it.

Lord forbid if they were some how able to sign out and use their m-16. The m-16 was designed specifically to kill; small enterence wound, but one hell of an exit. Had to have been an automatic weapon, for it would explain the large injured count.

kitsha wrote:

A friend from Killeen is telling me that there are 15 dead and 20-30 wounded.

bigsingle wrote:

And one more thing you anti-American, you should be ashamed of your comment.
That's the reason why the taliban is kicking As s because of your kind.
In fact, take your AS SSSSSSS back to the caves of Europe. Do we need to discuss where white people came from?
I didn't think so!

I don't know what posting prompted all these comments, but I am glad it was removed.

to U R My Dingleberries and bigsingle: guys seriously. Come on. Asking righly and properly, just hold off a bit on this one.

U R My Dingleberries wrote:

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No, my name isn't Tom and I'm not from Fairport.
Hey! Maybe you'll slip me some of those H-U-G-E welfare benefits you receive each month.
To help me pay my bills and all.
If I have to, I can learn to smoke crack, just like you do.
No degree? You certainly must mean yourself.
You should be able to tell from my stylized writings
that I have degrees.
If I wrote more Ebonically, like yourself, then perhaps
that would lead you to believe that I don't have degrees.

If you have any form of common sense, then it would be common sense to use your degrees towards something alittle more positive like typing something a little less about yourself, when the forum was most definetly about the soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas. Also not comparing the Pres to the Gov. of NY which is definetly an anamoly. Your so bitter that your bitterness clouds your judgment. It's about the injured and dead soldiers, not you Dingle.

CNN just identified the dead shooter as being of Middle Eastern decsent.

Dewey wrote:

<quoted text>If you have any form of common sense, then it would be common sense to use your degrees towards something alittle more positive like typing something a little less about yourself, when the forum was most definetly about the soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas. Also not comparing the Pres to the Gov. of NY which is definetly an anamoly. Your so bitter that your bitterness clouds your judgment. It's about the injured and dead soldiers, not you Dingle.

I am guessing that once again you were incapable of reading the reply that sparked my reply.

Typical of you, you just want to prattle along without knowing
to what you are replying.

I read what I am replying to BEFORE I reply.

My commentary is directed at prior responses.

Not just so much mindless chatter like you seem to be
all too capable of doing.

I have a sister-in-law who is in the military.

She might be at Fort Hood, I am not entirely sure.

Does that satisfy your mindless banter?

"Lt. Gen Bob Cone said at a news conference that one shooter, who ABC News has identified the suspected gunmas"...Whats a gunmas?

This sounds like a terrorist attack to me. did you here the guy's name?