Posted on 11/05/2009 7:58:38 PM PST by SwaggerStick
I’m wondering if the 2 shooter story was that everything was so chaotic that Officer Munley was thought to be the 2nd shooter. I mean absolutely no disrespect there. I think Munley is a hero.
And the other thing was that the general at first told us that the first or main shooter was using a handgun which made it easier to see how there would’ve had to have been more than one shooter.
I’m not saying there wasn’t more than one terrorist shooter. Just that there was so much disinformation at first that it was so hard to sort it all out or make sense of it.
On all of the Military Bases/Installations I’ve been on the only times I saw personnel who were armed was at the base/installation entrance or within security areas, or LE in vehicles as they drove on patrol. In experiences I’ve never been to any building related to business or medical that had armed personnel outside the building (there was security at the hospitial) or within the building (hospital excluded). It appears from what I’ve read that the shooter opened up within a room inside a building when the shooting first started. There were no armed personnel in that room based on all documented reports, other than the shooter. Reloading a semi-auto pistol doesn’t take long, and the weapon used would accept clips of 30 rounds. He would not have had any problems with firing off the number of rounds he did before LE arrived - people under fire (even those who have been in a forward combat area) would understandable be dazed, confused, and disoriented (who would have even thought they might be under fire at that location?). Perhaps he did not act alone. But, based upon all released information to date, there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. I do believe that this attack was a pre-mediated act of terrorism, though.
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