The Incident Of The Fort Hood Shooting

2014 between 5:30p.m and 8p.m. On the Fox News website the top story was about the Fort Hood shooting. The headline was “BREAKING NEWS: At least 4 dead, 14 injured in shooting at Fort Hood” The ‘breaking news’ text was in all capitals and it was bright red. The lead was “A shooting at Ft. Hood that reportedly left at least four dead -- including the shooter -- and 14 injured Wednesday was a "soldier on soldier" incident without any preliminary terrorism link, a senior Department of Homeland Security

Fort Hood Define crisis in general terms and briefly describe the type of crisis that is presented in this scenario. A crisis has many definitions. According to Webster's Dictionary (2012) a crisis can be: "an emotionally significant event or radical change of status in a person's life" or "an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive change occurs." In this scenario, the term crisis means a crucial moment in time where the lives of those who the event concerned were changed

Fort Hood Shooting Jose A. Gonzalez HSM 433 October 1, 2012 Fort Hood Shooting Brief Description of Attack On November 5, 2009 at approximately 1:30 p.m., a gunman opens fire inside the base's Soldier Readiness Center at U.S. Army Base, Fort Hood, Texas. Soldier Readiness Center, is where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening (http://search.proquest.com). During the shooting the gunman killed 13 and wounded 31 others. The gunman was shot

Awlaki’s targeted killing as well (Shane 1). However, officials of the United States considered Anwar al-Awlaki a threat to United States Homeland Security because he was known as a suspected terrorist who had linked into many incidents such as the 9/11 attacks, the Fort Hood shooting, the potential bombing in Time Square, and the failed Underwear Bombing (Lucas1). Eventually, the Awlaki’s targeted killing is salient and significant because his targeted killing questions whether it is legal to kill a

will hinder dangerous people from owning a gun more or less the statics shows that is not the problem; dangerous individuals obtain their weapons either through a family member or friends. Year after year, it is proven by the series of gun related incidents throughout the United States. Stricter gun laws will stop the violent killing of innocent human beings, by preventing criminals and mentally incompetent individuals from purchasing and possessing firearms. Many believe the United States should

In the past 45 years, there have been 27 shootings on various military installations with an approximate total of 78 killed and 120 injured. (Rothschild) Of those, six were prior to the 1992-gun policy directive set up by Department of Defense Deputy Director, Donald J. Atwood under President George H. W. Bush and modified by President William Clinton, restricting military personnel – with the exception of military and DoD police officers along with sentries – from carrying weapons on base (Darcy)

The United States of America has been described by many people as the Land of the Free; a Land of Opportunities. There has always been a gun culture in America; however it has also been a gun-control culture. Whenever a devastating mass shooting occurs, such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, a deliberation about gun violence follows suit. Depending on whom you discuss this with, that case is not always true. There are those that are for gun control and those that are against. There are

federal reforms designed to strengthen gun laws had been in place, many mass shootings, such as the one in Aurora Colorado, could have been prevented. The United States needs to implement stricter gun laws. The controversial debate over gun rights is as old as the history of the United States. It is time for lawmakers to create and enforce stronger restrictions on guns. There have been too many high profile/ mass shootings in the recent years for people to continue ignoring the problem of people’s

either defeat this attack or reduce damage to the barest minimum. On November 5, 2009, after giving away possessions, including food, furniture and copies of the Koran, army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan made his way to the Soldier Readiness Center at Ft. Hood, Texas where hundreds of deploying soldiers were being given shots and eye examinations. Hasan jumped on a table and yelled “All ahu Akbar!” (God is Great) before he opened fire that killed 13 and injured 31 people. We face an enemy that is diverse

gun control specifically about high capacity magazines and assault weapons has only been a forethought, never passing all the way through lawmakers, it is a thought that many people have had, and is definitely a thought people are having as mass shootings are becoming more common. Advocates for these set of laws feel that guns are a threat to society and should be outlawed. There are many important arguments about whether or not guns are an inhumane part of American culture. The first of these is