Sad day at Ft. Hood

[Sgt. Slaughter]

There's no indication as of yet that he was part of a jihad, a member of a terrorist cell, or anything else besides a lunatic with a couple pistols.

They should have a public trial, public sentencing if/when found guilty and public execution if/when sentenced to death. Keep putting the info out that he's being tried for killing other people and not for his religion. If it's repeated enough, it will become fact. ;)

[MyOwnNemesis]

Personally, I think execution would be too quick and "humane".

Apparently, ABC is reporting the shooter is paralyzed.

Good. In that case, I hope he gets to spend the next 50 years unable to move any extremities, having to be spoon fed, get his chin wiped and having to sh*t into a plastic bag.

Now that is prison.

I was thinking along the lines of a daily Pig-Chum bath followed by a conjugal visit from Daddy Bull Queen and then the next 50 years eating radioactive crabs and coconuts on Bikini Island.

[JoetheGI]

Based on what I've read so far, I wonder why the hell the Army allowed this guy to stay, much less decide to deploy him to a combat zone?

1. Political correctness has infiltrated our military and has eroded our culture, decreased our effectiveness, and has allowed inferior leadership to set and enforce policy.

This guy CLEARLY indicated his loyalty was NOT to the nation, or the Army, but to ISLAM. Yet any mention of concern would be borne out as discrimination due to political correctness and the ill conceived notion that "diversity" is an ASSET rather than the liability it truely is, in an organization that thrives on COHESION.

I can, and probably will in the future, right a freaking book on how the fighting culture and capabilities of our military is negatively effected by some naive notion of forced and pretentious "equality". Hell, the damn chief of staff of the Army, the big guy, the man in charge, was pitching some political correct B.S. like "...we are concerned that this will injure diversity in the Army." WTF!? How about doing a better job of identifying moslems who make claims that they are more loyal to "islam" than the constitution of the united states, that they swore an oath to uphold and defend by the way?

Political correctness kills...

2. POOR LEADERSHIP and a desire to "maintain the numbers" has lead to a decrease in QUALITY soldiers filling the ranks. It's easy to be a bridge builder and use shoddy materials when YOU won't have to drive over the damn thing and YOU won't be held accountable when it crashes. That's basically what has happened over the past 8 years, as quality standards for enlistment have been lowered.

The same thing applies on the officer side of the house.

There are leaders that KNEW this guy was a turd and should NOT have been allowed to be in service, however, they FAILED to maintain the performance and quality standard that soldiers expect and deserve, and as a result, this guy got the opportunity to get his jihad on against a group of innocent unarmed individuals.

Very islamic of him.

[retdetsgt]

1. Political correctness has infiltrated our military and has eroded our culture, decreased our effectiveness, and has allowed inferior leadership to set and enforce policy.

Yep. That was my theory. People were afraid to confront him on his views because they were scared of the repercussions. I saw it in my police depart from the early 80's on. We have totally incompetent people in important positions solely based on their race and/or gender. More on race than gender, but does play a role now and then.

[retdetsgt]

There's no indication as of yet that he was part of a jihad, a member of a terrorist cell, or anything else besides a lunatic with a couple pistols.

No disagreement with that. I still bet that he was a lunatic that they let slide because he was muslim even under evidence that he was nuts and potentially dangerous.

Maybe the USMC wouldn't be so PC, but the Army would.