Twelve soldiers at Fort Hood Army Base in Texas are dead after one of their own opened fire Thursday. The shooting left 31 others wounded and the suspect was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
We hear about shootings pretty often, from drug deals gone bad to heinous events such as Columbine or Virginia Tech.
Speaking of Virginia Tech, Hasan is a graduate from the school and is a psychiatrist licensed in the state. Odd? We think so. It is incredibly eerie that this man, suspected of shooting these soldiers, is an alumni of the same school that experienced 32 deaths of their own in 2007 from the very same type of crime.
We aren’t really suggesting that something is going on in Virginia to push people to commit these crimes because these actions obviously take someone being mentally unstable in some way and breaking down.
It’s just strange. It’s strange that anyone could committ something so disturbing, so “horrifying” as President Barack Obama described the shooting at Fort Hood.
It is even scarier that a soldier of our country, a soldier who is supposed to be serving this country in war, could be pushed somehow to open fire on others, especially soldiers he works with. Isn’t his whole job about fighting FOR the United States, not against its soldiers?
What happened? What snapped? Could it have been things he has seen or experienced in the war itself that pushed him to the edge? Did he ever even see anything like that? We may never know.
It is just frightening and sad these soldiers are experiencing this. And whether you believe in the war or not, it’s still awful.
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