Ft. Hood's History of Violence

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Friday November 06, 2009 · 5:56 AM PST

2009/11/06 · 05:56

I’m going to do something I’m not accustomed to doing. I’m going to give kudos to the CBS Evening News.

Specifically, I’m going to do it for their story this evening that puts today’s Fort Hood shootings into a larger context by mentioning three similar incidents that have occurred there within the past eighteen years — including one that happened this May.

More after the jump. (Crossposted at The Seminal.)

From http://www.cbsnews.com/... --

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. [PW notes: Technically, it was in Killeen, a military town that calls itself "the home of Ft. Hood" and is frequented by military personnel from the base, which surrounds it on three sides.] 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.

Furthermore, as this CBS News video story notes, Fort Hood’s not the only US military base to have a history of violence, especially in recent years.

And guess what? Most of these killings have been done by guys who weren’t named "Malik". However, this inconvenient truth won’t stop people like Atlas Shrugs’ Pamela Oshry Geller from urging the US versions of pogroms against Muslims.

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