Also see: Domestic violence gun law is upheld
It was briefly reported but completely distorted!
Unfortunately, that has become the rule rather than the exception with the propaganda pre$$.
"Soldier kills 3, wounds others before shooting self" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Adam Goldman and Sari Horwitz | Washington Post April 03, 2014
An Iraq war veteran who was grappling with mental health issues opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, in an attack that left four people dead and 16 wounded Wednesday afternoon, according to preliminary law enforcement and military reports.
Related: "A dispute between two soldiers spiraled into a bloody attack at Fort Hood, Texas, that left four people dead and more than a dozen wounded Wednesday afternoon near a medical building, according to preliminary law enforcement reports."
That's quite a difference in opening paragraph accounts, and knowing what we do about the official mouthpiece media.... I'm already suspicious.
The gunfire sent tremors of fear across a sprawling Army base still reeling from one of the worst mass shootings in US history.
Many basic details about the shooting remained unclear in the chaotic hours after the first calls for help around 4 p.m., but senior law enforcement officials said the shooting did not appear to be linked to any foreign terrorist organizations. The shooter was among those who died, the officials said.
The officials identified the shooter as Army Specialist Ivan Lopez, 34, a military truck driver....
The shooting was the third major gun attack at a US military installation in five years, leaving the nation grappling with the prospect of yet more flag-draped funerals for troops killed on the home front.
After they minimized the ones killed overseas during 10 years of war.
A government contractor went on a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in September, leaving 12 people dead.
Related: The Aggravation of Aaron Alexis
Why no name?
And in 2009, Army Major Nidal Hasan opened fire on a group of soldiers at Fort Hood preparing to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30.
Related: Putting the Fort Hood Trial to Rest
Not before putting a hood on the cover-up.
And you are wondering why I don't or won't believe my official media's version?
President Obama said he was heartbroken. Speaking during a fund-raising trip to Chicago, he pledged to get to the bottom of what happened.
After the Washington Navy Yard shooting, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered a series of security changes at military installations, including more rigorous screening of personnel and the creation of an analysis center to examine internal threats.
‘‘When we have these kinds of tragedies on our bases, something’s not working,’’ he said Wednesday evening during a visit to Hawaii. ‘‘We will continue to address the issue. Anytime you lose your people to these kinds of tragedies, it’s an issue, it’s a problem.’’
General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that many questions remained about the shooting, but that a principal initial focus was to support the victims and their families.
‘‘This is a community that has faced and overcome crises with resilience and strength,’’ he said in a statement.
Dozens of ambulances and law enforcement vehicles converged on the scene after the shooting. Several of the wounded were transported to a hospital on the base.
The base was placed on lockdown for much of the afternoon, with loudspeakers across the facility urging people to shelter in place.
Oh, wow, memories of the Marathon hoax!
The order applied to thousands of families that live on the post. It was lifted in the early evening, once law enforcement authorities had determined that a sole gunman was responsible for the shooting....
It's always a "lone gunman" even if it was not.
The restrictions on personal weapons were expanded following the 2009 massacre and an epidemic of suicides at Fort Hood, the largest active-duty armored post in the country.
That is the basic article from print that I received this morning.
Related: It's a Wonderful Bridge
I wasn't aware Fort Hood was having an epidemic, but this is what was added by the updated rewrite:
Police spent Wednesday night searching his apartment in Killeen, the city that abuts the base. General Mark Milley, the commander of Fort Hood, said the soldier, whom he did not identify by name, served four months in Iraq in 2011.
I'm wondering what they planted.
Milley said the shooter had behavioral health and mental health issues. He said the soldier, who self-reported a traumatic brain injury and was taking antidepressants, had been under examination to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder.
Uh-oh!
He was on the prescription pharmaceuticals?
‘‘We are digging deep into his background,’’ Milley said.
Milley said the soldier opened fire with a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol that was purchased recently but was not authorized to be brought on the base. He was eventually confronted by a female military police officer. He put his hands up but then pulled a gun from under his jacket.
‘‘She engaged,’’ Milley said, then the soldier put the gun to his head and shot himself.
Although bases such as Fort Hood contain large storehouses of armaments, and many of their inhabitants have spent years at war, military posts are usually among the most idyllic communities in the country, a throwback to the 1950s, with manicured lawns, drivers who conscientiously abide by the speed limit and parents unafraid to allow their children to frolic out of sight.
Which is where the agenda-pushing globe-kickers want us all to be kicked back!! They are trying to do it now with the new Cold War over the Ukraine!
That, and the self-internalized values of militarism exhibited by the WaPo reporters in their nostalgic return to the base, leaves open with no belief or faith in the war pre$$.
Soldiers based at Fort Hood were called upon, often repeatedly, to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade. Those combat tours have exacted a profound physical and emotional toll on many of them. Others have rebounded and are continuing their military careers or are transitioning into the civilian world....
Yeah, thanks for headlining and megaphoning all the lies on the front pages of your papers, AmeriKan pre$$!!
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"In new Fort Hood attack, an echo of 2009 rampage; Army officials say little could prevent Wednesday’s deaths" by Manny Fernandez and Serge F. Kovaleski | New York Times April 04, 2014
KILLEEN, Tex. — In the aftermath of a deadly rampage at Fort Hood here in November 2009 that left 13 people dead, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced a Pentagon review of the shooting to help ensure, he said, that “nothing like this ever happens again.”
Nearly five years later it did — in eerily similar fashion.
When I read something like that I'm suspicious of the whole thing. I'm sensing mind-manipulating reinforcement.
On Wednesday, when a troubled Iraq war veteran — Specialist Ivan Antonio Lopez, 34 — shot and killed three people and wounded 16 others before taking his own life at Fort Hood, he did so in Army uniform after sneaking a high-powered handgun onto the base, just as the 2009 gunman had done. Specialist Lopez bought his gun at the same shop near the base where the 2009 gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, bought his weapon. Each shooting started in a medical support area for troops, and each ended when the gunman confronted a female police officer rushing to the scene.
There was also a fundamental difference: Officials say there is no indication that Lopez committed an act of terrorism as Hasan did.
But the replay of a mass shooting at Fort Hood, particularly following the one in September that left 12 people dead at the Washington Navy Yard, raised questions about what lessons Army officials had learned from 2009; how effectively military installations can keep out guns; and how prepared they are to deal with threats from within, including from soldiers or contractors intent on doing harm to others on the base.
They want to disarm soldiers who fought in the war zone because they would be the most effective leaders in the resistance.
At Fort Hood, which sprawls for 340 square miles over the Texas prairie, Lopez was being treated for behavioral and mental health issues. To enter the base, he would have undergone no security screening beyond showing his identification and would have passed through no metal detectors.
Personnel are not allowed to carry concealed weapons on military bases. Soldiers on post must register their firearms, which Army officials said Lopez failed to do with the handgun he used in the attack. Fort Hood’s rules for soldiers who are not police officers rely in large part on the honor system and require all personnel bringing a privately owned firearm onto the base to declare that they are doing so and state why.
“Fort Hood is a big installation,” the base’s commanding general, Lieutenant General Mark A. Milley, told reporters on Thursday. “We’ve got a population well over 100,000 here. It would not be realistic to do a pat-down search on every single soldier and employee on Fort Hood for a weapon on a daily basis.”
Those who regularly or occasionally work at or visit the base agreed that it was not feasible for a post such as Fort Hood to thoroughly check for guns. Fred Burton, a former counterterrorism agent at the State Department who is now a security analyst for an international intelligence firm, Stratfor, said he had visited the base the day before the shooting to do research for a book he is writing. “Nobody at the main entrance was asking me if I had a gun, and nobody was checking,” he said.
The private intelligence arm of the US state.
On Thursday, as the flags on base flew at half-staff and military officials and federal investigators began to search for a motive and examine Lopez’s past, there remained more questions than answers.
First question: Lopez had transferred to the base in February and was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder??
Lopez had been taking medication for anxiety and depression....
Investigators said they were still trying to clarify a motive for the attack but were focusing on the fragile state of mind of Lopez.
Lopez, 34, a married father of four and Iraq War veteran, was given a full psychiatric evaluation last month and had been prescribed ‘‘a number of drugs,’’ including the sleep aid Ambien, according to Army Secretary John McHugh.
Isn't that the same stuff they gave Alexis?
But the Army psychiatrist who last saw Lopez found no ‘‘sign of likely violence, either to himself or to others,’’ McHugh told a Senate panel.
But Milley, Fort Hood’s commanding general, described Lopez’s health in more dire terms.
‘‘We have very strong evidence that he had a medical history that indicates unstable psychiatric or psychological conditions,’’ he said at a news conference. ‘‘We believe that is the fundamental, underlying causal factor.’’
He's already being framed.
General Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, described Lopez as a very experienced soldier who had served for nine years in the Puerto Rico National Guard before enlisting in the active-duty Army in 2010.
While with the National Guard, Lopez served a one-year deployment in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In 2011, after joining the Army full time, he served four months in Iraq and was one of the last US troops to come home at the end of the war.
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I read somewhere that every six weeks some mass shooting would occur like clockwork, and here we are again!
Real or not, I don't trust any account provided by the propaganda pre$$. Too many lies for far too long.
Related: Spc. Ivan Lopez and Fort Hood – Just the right crisis to pass the Sandy Hook mental hygiene law
