Thursday, November 05, 2009

OMG ITS JIHAD MUSLIMS EEEEEEEEK!

That's the emerging wingnut narrative, obviously.

Except Ft. Hood has a pretty bloody history.

October 16, 1991: A 35-year-old civilian drives a pickup truck into a Fort Hood cafeteria and fatally shoots 23 people wounding 20 more before killing himself. It was the deadliest shooting rampage in American history until the Virginia Tech Massacre.

July 18, 2009: Thirty-year-old soldier from Wisconsin is shot and killed by a bullet fired during a party at Fort Hood. A fellow soldier is charged with the murder.

Sept. 8, 2008; A 1st Lieutenant goes looking for missing military equipment at an apartment near Fort Hood is shot and killed by a solider from Alabama, who then turns the gun on himself.
Awful. I don't remember that mass killing in '91 at all.

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