Washington Navy Yard Shooting

The latest report I heard is that one shooter has been killed and that the shooter was an African American involved with the Navy. Don't know if that means it was a serviceman.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Russian official blames Navy Yard shooting on &quot;American exceptionalism&quot; <a href="http://t.co/bl1pWGEHv7">http://t.co/bl1pWGEHv7</a></p>&mdash; Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/statuses/379662033396195329">September 16, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Death toll now 12

 

There are reports of multiple shooters, both white and black in the descriptions. Hopefully some type of video assistance will surface soon.

 

If it was Putin, I'd be mad. But, it looks like it's a member of Parliament who doesn't know when to keep his trap shut. Lord knows we have plenty of those in Congress.

As for the shooting, I've been following it, but I don't know what to say about it. I assume that's why this thread is so short so far -- people don't know what to make of it.

 

Yeah, basically it's like holding America responsible for the comments of Gohmert, Kucinich, or that crazy beeotch from Minnesota.

On topic: thoughts and prayers to those affected. Hope that catch or put down all the perps and figure out what this is about.

 

This has to be a joke.

 

@nbcnightlynews: D.C. Navy Yard gunman ID'd as Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, TX, law enforcement officials tell @PeteWilliamsNBC http://t.co/cVjUzIvjJJ

 

Has that been confirmed.They let one person go who was a suspect.

 

Wonder if this one will be designated as "workplace violence", too? Probably only if the guys were muslims.

Prayers out to the families of the dead and wounded.

 

I was going to ask what there is to debate here but it looks like you're already hard at work on that.

 

For seriously?

 

There's nothing to debate. Unless they end up absurdly calling this workplace violence as they did with the terrorist attack in Ft. Hood. But of course we should all be able to agree that Ft. Hood was a terrorist attack, and not simple workplace violence, right?

So yeah, nothing to debate here. Probably.

 

What makes this a terrorist attack? Can you define what that term means for me?

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>FBI seeking information on deceased Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis <a href="http://t.co/4VUoRQMFHu">pic.twitter.com/4VUoRQMFHu</a></p>&mdash; NBC Nightly News (@nbcnightlynews) <a href="https://twitter.com/nbcnightlynews/statuses/379704488317452288">September 16, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

We don't know what it is yet. If more than one shooter was involved, though, it's almost certainly not some dude flipping out and going postal. We still don't know how many people were involved, though. Too much fog at this point.

Terrorist attack is a distinct possibility right now, especially if there was more than one shooter, but we don't know yet.

 

Here is the perp's mugshot from 2010 when he was arrested for illegal discharge of a firearm.

http://www.justmugshots.com/texas/fort-worth/814064

If he was alone then maybe it was "workplace violence" or whatever. Still don;t know enough.

 

Here is more on his 2010 arrest:

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Aaron-Alexis-Fort-Worth-Arrest-Report-223953911.html

So he's either a dumba$$ who was cleaning a loaded firearm or shot into his neighbor's apartment. Maybe he is a loon who just flipped out.

 

[Why there isn't a thread yet] DC Shooting, 13 dead

CF is slipping

1 suspect killed

2 possible suspect on the run

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/index.html?hpt=hp_t1