Initial Thoughts on the Navy Yard Shooting "The call for a muscular governmental response each and every time that something bad happens in America is an unsavory reminder of what can best be described as our dumb first instinct — a hard-coded human reaction that is closely and dishonorably related to the same primeval impulse that leads frightened children to respond to disasters, abominations, and tragedies with a touching, but useless refrain, “make it better, Mommy.” "
Here’s How The Lamestream Media Completely Screwed Up Reporting About The Navy Yard Shooting
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Mediaite: “I used to work in Washington, live in Washington. This seems so unusual to me that a gunman could create this kind of havoc at a U.S. military facility,” [Carol] Costello asked her producer,
Brian Todd. “Have you ever heard of this happening before, Brian?”
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“I was just saying that this is so unusual, because this is such a heavily-secured military facility. I’ve worked in Washington for many years, I’ve never heard of such a thing happening,” she asked.
“Well, we haven’t either in this area, Carol,” Todd replied. “This is the first time we’ve seen something like this, at least in many, many years. Now you remember the Fort Hood shooting in 2009, where that was a member of the service who was convicted eventually of doing that shooting.”
ABC News "Aaron Alexis, the former Navy reservist who killed 12 people during a shooting spree at the
Navy Yard in Washington D.C. today, exchanged gunfire with police multiple times before he was finally shot and killed by an officer.
" 'I think the actions by the police officers, without question, helped to reduce the number of lives lost," Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference today.