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ScienceBloggers Greg Laden and Matt Springer have both weighed in on the weapons used by Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. Matt disagrees with the basic gun control argument that Greg initially raised, but focused primarily on correcting some factual errors that Greg made in a later post.…
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Matt Springer is LIVID with my commentary on gun control. Go read his post here and say something nice in the comment section to make him feel better. Mike Dunford has further comments on this issue as well, and as has been happening all along (since the Ft. Hood news broke) Mike is adding…
The man who slaughtered 13 unarmed people in Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was clearly mentally ill, and should have been treated and cared for before he snapped and went on a rampage. Unfortunately, there's another factor that seems to be getting minimized in the press accounts: he was also…

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Nobody has pointed out yet that the Army restricts soldiers' access to guns while on base, and that the gun came in from the civilian world.

By John Emerson (not verified) on 12 Nov 2009 #permalink

John: Actually, in the five or six posts on my blog on that issue, that has been pointed out about nine times. Also, see Mike Dunford's post on this (and his comments on my blog)

Are you on TV? If not, you're nobody.

By John Emerson (not verified) on 12 Nov 2009 #permalink

@#4: "Are you on TV? If not, you're nobody."

And from that we can conclude that everybody has pointed out that the Army restricts soldiers' access to guns while on base, and that the gun came in from the civilian world.