#navy shooting

[itsmythang]

NAVY ACADEMY ACTIVE SHOOTER SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS: JACKSON FLEMING. EARLY REPORTS SAY 3 DEAD. Jackson Fleming, a dismissed midshipman who began firing on campus.

[shane-coyg]

The shooter seemed to have been tortured by an ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) weapon. 'Not what yall say'? I think he's talking about the commands of his 'handlers' and wants to rebel against them. 'End the torment', there's a lot behind this story that the media isn't telling us. If his weapon was an AR-15 this would still be main story in the news. 

[theoneandonlyjarrett]

Unless you know us personally, the men and women who work and live here are considered faceless, pointless bureaucrats. They pay taxes and do not have a vote in Congress. Our work and our city is held up as a symbol of everything wrong with politics, government, media. Tourists from Real America come here and ask us for directions on Metro or to snap a photo of their family in front of a landmark and then they go home and talk about how terrible “Washington” is. Nice to meet you, too. A New York Times writer just sold a lot of books by reducing us to a catchphrase: This Town. That he opened the book by making fun of a man’s funeral here spoke volumes, and foreshadowed the non-reaction to what happened yesterday. When 12 people are massacred in Washington, it’s not people dying in Real America. The rest of the nation does not stand “D.C. Strong.” Profile pictures do not become ribbons. Phones do not ring off the hook, just to be sure we’re doing OK. After Hurricane Katrina, everyone who ever sucked down a drink on Bourbon Street claimed the Big Easy as their home. Likewise, after the marathon bombing in Boston. When 12 people are massacred in This Town, our nation shrugs collectively and offers justifications for its apathy that all translate to: “There’s a viable reason we don’t care too much.”

Brunch Bird: This Town

So, so, so, so, so true. She hit the nail on the head.

[socialnn]

Jon Stewart's "Wrongnado" segment about the Navy shooting.

[yahoonews]

Gun rights crowd targets military’s firearms policy after Navy Yard shooting

In the wake of Monday’s mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, where a military contractor armed with a 12-gauge shotgun killed twelve people before being shot dead himself, some gun advocates are raising objections about the policy that prohibits servicemen and civilians from arming themselves for protection on bases.

[publichealthcool]

"When 13 people died in a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, the story made front page news. But many of the mass shootings that have happened since the December massacre of elementary school students and teachers in Newtown, Conn., didn't." Click here to read more.

There Have Been More Mass Shootings Since Newtown Than You've Heard About (INFOGRAPHIC)

[yahoonews]

Audit: Navy cost-cutting making bases, facilities less safe

A Pentagon audit takes the Navy to task for penny-pinching when it came to security clearances for outside contractors at military facilities — including the Washington Navy Yard.

[jakesavesthequeen]

Navy Building Fiasco

News flash, on September 16th that over at the Navy Building in Washington, 12 people were killed in gunfire by a man who was also killed, yet many believe there might have been accomplices, so reports the Associated Press in their article on the fox news website. The person responsible for such a heinous crime is a man named Aaron Alexis, a Navy veteran. He has claimed mental distress in the form of schizophrenia and paranoia amongst other things, yet they’re still investigating.

Mayor Vincent Gray claims there was no real motive for the attack and no obvious signs of terrorism, yet he hasn’t ruled out the possibility of it. Described as a nice neighbor and good friend, he was also known to have anger management as a child after coping with the attack on 9/11, and dealing with discrimination in the Navy, so it’s possible that pure resentment drove him to do what he did. During his three years with the Navy, he had many charges of insubordination and other unhonorable actions, yet received an early honorable discharge because his acts weren’t enough to grant anything less than honorable. It’s also known you don’t need to go through a metal detector in the Navy building as long as you have your card. A theory that enters my mind is that the anger built up from the 9/11 attack along with other possible traumatizing events led him to join the navy and purposely act out of order simply so he would be able to get into the Navy building with arms without being detected, of course this theory is far fetched but it’s still one that presents itself to my mind.

My final thoughts on the issue is that this was all a huge act of violence, whether premeditated for years or done in the spur of the moment, and if he didn’t have a record of shooting things during bouts of angry blackouts, then maybe he would have been able to think with reason. Undoubtedly he will either spend the rest of his life in prison or in a mental health ward, and future visits to the Navy building by local employees will now involve a metal detector. All it takes is one man to ruin everything.