However, this past weekend in Tucson a crazed civilian gunman killed 6 and wounded 14; There was a prompt effort made by Law Enforcement, the media, politicians, and the Administration to spin the event as having been influenced by the lack of civility; The lack of unity, the inability to see things the way they do...
Discourse?
They quickly blamed the usual vast right wing conspiracy, et al.
The 13 killed were:
Michael Grant Cahill[37] 62 Spokane, Washington Civilian Physician Assistant
Libardo Eduardo Caraveo[38] 52 Woodbridge, Virginia Major
Justin Michael DeCrow[39] 32 Plymouth, Indiana Staff Sergeant
John P. Gaffaney[40] 56 Serra Mesa, California Captain[41]
Frederick Greene[37] 29 Mountain City, Tennessee Specialist
Jason Dean Hunt[37] 22 Tipton, Oklahoma Specialist
Amy Sue Krueger[37] 29 Kiel, Wisconsin Staff Sergeant
Aaron Thomas Nemelka[37] 19 West Jordan, Utah Private First Class
Michael S. Pearson[42] 22 Bolingbrook, Illinois Private First Class
Russell Gilbert Seager[35] 51 Racine, Wisconsin Captain[43]
Francheska Velez ‡[44] 21 Chicago, Illinois Private First Class
Juanita L. Warman[35] 55 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Colonel[45]
Kham See Xiong[37] 23 Saint Paul, Minnesota Private First Class
The Fort Hood shooting was a mass shooting that took place on November 5, 2009,
at Fort Hood—the most populous US military installation in the world, located
just outside Killeen, Texas—in which a gunman killed 13 people and wounded 30
others.[2]
The sole suspect is Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major serving as a psychiatrist. He was shot by Department of the Army Civilian Police officers,[3] and is now paralyzed from the chest down.[4] Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder under the Uniform Code of Military Justice; he may face additional charges at court-martial.[5][6]
Hasan is an American-born Muslim of Palestinian descent. Internal Army reports indicate officers within the Army were aware of Hasan's tendencies toward radical Islam since 2005. Additionally, investigations before and after the shooting discovered e-mail communications between Hasan and Yemen-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who quickly declared Hasan a hero, as "fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty". After communications between the two were forwarded to FBI terrorism task forces in 2008, they determined that Hasan was not a threat prior to the shooting and that his questions to al-Awlaki were consistent with medical research.
In November 2009, after examining the e-mails and previous terrorism
investigations, the FBI had found no information to indicate he had any
co-conspirators or was part of a broader terrorist plot. The U.S. has since
classified Anwar al-Awlaki as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and the
UN considers Awlaki to be associated with al-Qaeda.[7] Yet a year after the
attack, questions lingered of whether the incident was caused by mental health
issues or Hasan was a terrorist, as government agencies have still not
officially linked Major Hassan to any radical groups. [8]
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