The madness continues as our President commented that the shooting was a result of someone cracking under pressure. With all respect Mr President, you are a lawyer and you were the head of the Harvard Law Review. Will you continue to ignore mounting evidence that suggests this shooting was prompted by religious difference and an ideology that supports taking lives for radical religious causes. When the partial birth abortion doctor was killed, you called it a haneus act and didn't hesitate to condemn such thinking. That was the right thing to do. On the day of serial shooter Mohammed's scheduled death, are we still saying his actions were not influenced by his radical religious ideology. When will we realize that tyranny doesn't always require a Berlin Wall but can come from within our borders because religious differences allow people to take the lives of others, we should speak up against such action. Why not condemn any radical religious arm that promotes death and call it what it is. This is not an inditement to the entire Muslim world but to the radicals who feel they can kill Americans because they believe it it not only right but will be rewarded. Evidence seems to be mounting that Hasan believed such ideology.
I was incensed today when I began following the news coverage on Major Hasan's gunning down of 13 fellow soldiers and wounding 30 people. News media are making me crazy with their talk about post traumatic stress as a cause for this shooting. Hasan has not been deployed. He's not a victim of trauma who has been behind enemy lines, fought in a combat zone or been to war. Please, leave the psychiatry to those of us who are professional and stop looking for excuses to avoid the obvious.
