Fort Hood shooting 2014

Must have been one hell of a "soldier dispute".

 

Can you see his postings are a little out of place?

 

Allegedly Ivan Lopez.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/official-fort-hood-shooter-believed-be-dead

 

IVAN. Mmmmm- hmmmm.

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The gunman, who served in Iraq for four months in 2011, had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems. Before the attack, he had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, Milley said.


http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-kills-3-wounds-16-fort-hood-army-030737677.html

This will probably reignite the mental health/right to bear arms debate.

 

OK.....I expect to get pounded for this, but....I started out watching Fox News when coverage of this thing began. I can tolerate Shepard Smith for only so long, but stayed with them through the first 10-15 minutes of "The Kelly File," and that's when I found out Megan Kelly's show has a policy of not naming the shooter when these things occur (An idea proposed after the Colorado movie theater shooting).

My understanding is they did not want to make the shooter's name the only thing people remembered about this event (which I understand), but am wondering what people who might have been watching her at that time thought of the policy Anybody care to weigh in. My thinking is, you cannot COMPLETELY not mention the shooter. You might be able to reduce the amount of time you spend, but not acknowledge the person AT ALL, now that I have seen the policy in action, just does not seem possible without backlash.

OK.....Have at. And as I say, if we could look at this tactic objectively, like the reporters and editors we are, that would help.

 

Such a policy is pointless when you're the only one doing it.

The only thing it accomplishes is making you look out of touch.

 

Maybe the policy is there so Fox News viewers can hold out hope the shooter is a Muslim.

 

It really is amazing how many times the initial reports get the number of shooter wrong, mostly multiple shooters turning out to be one shooter. Almost becoming universal that what gets reported initially and what turns out to be true never match up.

 

"If at first you can't directly fault Obama for it, try, try, try again."

 

But in fairness you can bet that the political arm of The White House has already
had numerous meetings to insure that this in someway does not stick to Obama.

It's just the way of Washington

 

It's always been that way. Nothing unusual about that.