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Update On the Fort Hood Shooting

OK, so there were probably three shooters and the 'police' may have been military police which shows the army in a much more favourable lighr, performance wise. But still, given the location of the shooting, the victim count seems awfully high.

Shooting At U.S. Military Base

Another shooting, this time at a military base in the US.

This is as tragic as any other shooting, of course, but it is also strange, for two reasons:

1. The gunman managed, with handguns, to kill 12 and wound 31. That's means he shot a total of 43 people - and he may have shot at many more - before he was stopped. That's a lot of people to take out at a military base. One would think the place was crawling with people armed to the teeth who were trained to deal with just this sort of thing. 

2. Mr. Hasan [the gunman] “opened fire, and due to the quick response of the police forces, he was killed,” said Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone, the commanding officer at Fort Hood.

Instead of fighting back, the army resorted to what ordinary civilians do - call the cops. Huh !?! I was under the impression - based on movies, mostly - that usually the positions are reversed; that the army is called in when the police can't handle a situation.