Questions about Fort Hood shooter you won't hear from 'mainstream' press

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 6 November, 2009 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

(AP Photo/ Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences )

In the wake of yesterday's carnage at Fort Hood, the media is scrambling to find answers about the reported shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and his motives. While they're all asking basically the same questions, here are some they're not asking.

From Lt. Gen. Robert Cone:

Cone said in a press conference Thursday night that "there was no indication" that the weapons used in the shootings were military weapons. Soldiers at the post do not carry weapons unless they are doing training exercises or something of that nature, he said.

"This is our home," Cone said. "So we do have security guards that are here -- the MPs and the Department of the Army civilian police, but soldiers on Fort Hood do not carry weapons."

So didn't the shooter take full advantage of what is essentially a "gun free zone"?

One phenomenon the "mainstream" press is prominently highlighting is "anti-Muslim backlash." Mike Vanderboegh at Sipsey Street Irregulars notes an inconsistency:

If the attackers had been "Christian Identity" types, does anyone reading this doubt that their religious beliefs, no matter how sick and twisted, would not have been trumpeted by the state-run media?

For that matter, what do you think the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Anti-Defamation League would be saying, and do you think Chris Matthews would be giving them a forum to take full advantage of their agendas?

And here's one more question I'd really like to see people with investigative journalism team resources explore: In his position as a medical professional treating and diagnosing soldiers with mental health issues, both at Walter Reed and at Fort Hood, did Dr. Hasan report any veterans to the federal government for entry into the NICS "prohibited persons" database? In other words, have "gun control" laws enabled a mass shooter to cause the government to disarm others?

I could come up with a laundry list of other questions, but for now, these will serve to illustrate a larger point. We'll be getting answers to a lot of questions about this incident in the coming days from "Authorized Journalist" outlets. I don't expect we'll be seeing answers to these. Let's hope my cynicism proves unfounded.

[marktwain]

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[syriacus]

Hasan has no moral back bone.
He didn't need to kill and maim other people in order to protest the wars.

He could have refused to go overseas and have taken the consequences for his personal decision.
Other people have gone that peaceful route.

Odds are good that the Leftist media would have made him a saint.
Being shot by a woman must have crushed Hasan's ego.

[TET1968]

It started,before the blood could be removed, right after it was reported that the FBI stated there was no terrorist connection...you could hear it grow louder and louder by the hour......shredding machines by the hundreds, doing what they do best.

[spokeshave]

so what weapon(s) did the shooter use....anyone know...or hazard a guess...?

[leenie312]

Anyone..who goes into a crowded area and opens fire is a terrorist... ter·ror·ism (těr'ə-rĭz'əm) n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

[bitterohiogunclinger]

One was an FN five - seven. http://www.remtek.com/arms/fn/57/
I suspect that it will be targeted by the anti gun crowd and banned shortly.
From the manufacturers web site:

The Five-seveN® fires the SS190 5.7x28mm ball round. This projectile will perforate any individual protection on today's battlefield including the PASGT kevlar helmet, 48 layers of kevlar body armor and the CRISAT target (titanium and kevlar).

The other weapon was reportedly a revolver, but I've not seen reliable details on that one yet.

[Madam Theophilus]

Yes, they were not military issued, but legally purchased and registered by Hassan. Check out Fox News.

[jws3sticks]

My initial reaction was and still is that this wimp simply did not have the cojones to point the gun at himself and save all of those wonderful and loyal people and their families this dreadful outcome.

This may turn me, with still to be revealed background information from this jerk's computer, etc.

While Florida may be God's waiting room, I recently heard that the Virgin Islands are where old whores go to prepare themselves to be one of the 72 virgins assigned to these death monkeys of Islam, as their heavenly reward. (Sorry VI's for this flat joke)

[1066AD]

FnH 5.7mm

[dtrpscout]

The 5.7 AP rounds are not available to civilians.

[Armedanddangerous]

it was a 357 magnum revolver

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