Hindsight is always 20-20. If they had known he was going to blow they would have taken him down. It is a sad ending to a story that could have been a victory against many more like him.

I don't like our government right now but I will not go down the disgusting road that liberal conspiracy lunatics did on the Bush 9/11 deal. No one in our government would intentionally allow either to have taken place. There is no paycheck in it for them.

this could not have been prevented.out laws and criminals can get guns from the street or under ground so i hope this will not have an effect on law biding people who follow the laws. as far as i am concerned this guy who did the shooting should be put to death.

This poll seems to say more about our culture’s obsession with finger pointing than about actual facts. The trouble with living in a free society is that law enforcement can’t take action against someone who has not yet committed a crime, and although there are occasional tragedies I am glad it is this way. It’s as if people think the crime is too big to be one guy’s fault so more heads need to roll. I’m sure internal reviews within all the agencies involved are already taking place, but politicians still want to get some grandstanding in. Never waste a crisis, I guess.

Why was a military officer allowed to maintain contact with this cleric? As soon as he reached out, he should have been handcuffed and legally pursued, removing him from military life. He is a loser. A regular military person would have been nailed so fast. Strange that military analysts decided to play God with this idiot.

Unles there were warning signs that are being kept quiet from the public which I wouldn't be amazed if there were then there would be no way of knowing if someone was going to snap.I do think though that it should have been military people that shot hm and not a dependent of one.As many mp's as there are at FT Hood it's not like there's a shortage problem.They should have been able to take him down themselves before he shot as many as he did

WastingtonDC: Some of the Ft. Hood victims pictured were long service military. They might have been Homeland Defense In Depth Volunteers, had Bush 43, as we suggested, ordered the millions of long service veterans, active, reserve, retired and disabled, to train with their local units, and be annually re-qualified physically and mentally, to carry their choice of side arms at all times, to serve as our ever present terror tripwires. HDF issued PDA's replace volunteer's cell phones, alert the HDF net, draw a HDF flash crowd to any terror incident and work a miracle of defense in depth, for American soft targets. Of course, a military experienced in the annual review of those millions of volunteers for armed service in Obama's Homeland Defense Militia Mission, would have removed the shooter at Ft Hood, during his own reviews based on the evidence now proven to have been available, long before his attack.
Up to six long service victims at Ft. Hood, had they been honored with the Defense in Depth mission, and carrying their choice of side arms, openly or concealed, to protect our soft targets, would have limited the death toll at Ft. Hood, just as Israeli military people do, to the first few victims, and the murderer. Note the many attacks in Israel by terrorists with axes, bulldozers, and other large vehicles, most of which are stopped, within minutes, when one of Isreal's active, retired, or military veterans shoots the murderer down with their personal or issued arms.
While Bush 43's handlers may have denied him access to the White Paper we presented to a staffer at a President's club meeting, who promised faithfully to get it to the CINC, perhaps some military person assigned to our present CINC will risk their career and provide him a copy of the delfmast article in the Armed Forces Journal: The Obama Militia Homeland Defense in Depth Mission. Google delfmast, for a link to Too Few AFJ.
The article reprises the White Paper handed to the Bush 43 folks, and describes the single, legal CINC order, immune to congressional, police and bureaucrat union meddling, that will put an Obama Militia of millions of long service military people, most already being paid by the taxpayers, with high clearances, and requisite skills, on duty, as armed volunteers, everywhere in America that they work, play, pray, or travel, to serve and protect, as they have proven, by long service that they know how to do. Unlike our clueless politicians, all long service veterans work for the (One) CINC, and will all carry out that order with the immediate effect of making American interests, everywhere, denied territory for terrorists, domestic or foreign.
Of course, the honor of the Obama Militia Mission will greatly improve active and reserve retention of the limitless thousands of our volunteers, active and reservists who simply cannot bring themselves to waste 30 drills annually and their annual active duty two weeks, in writing memos to each other, instead of working and training with their active duty commands, as Bush 43 learned during his years as a Reserve Pilot. Those retention and recruitment gains will save billions annually, forever, and provide adequate National Guard and Reserve volunteers to back up, or more accurately in today's military, to augment, the active forces.
That legal CINC order would comprise a negative cost solution to the trillion dollar costs associated with necessary defense in depth, that does not presently exist, for our millions of soft targets and the multi-billion costs associated with continuing losses of far too many fine young officers and senior enlisted who leave the active and reserve forces at the peak of their value to the military. It should appeal to the CINC, as it appeals to any taxpayer, and it certainly would honor the volunteers who have dedicated a large portion or all of their working lives to protecting and defending America. It would also, as proven by the presence of unarmed military volunteers who died on 9/11 planes, VA Tech, and Ft. Hood, result in terminating those attacks, with less loss of life, with a single aircraft safe bullet, from the often present volunteer's concealed weapon, fired at close range, from behind the terrorist.

ARE YOU PEOPLE CRAZY,THIS MUSLIM TERRORIST MADE IT PERFECTLY CLEAR WHERE HE STOULD AND WHAT HE BELEIVED IN.HE WAS ALLOWED TO DO WHAT HE DID BECAUSE OF OUR WEAK AND STUPID GOVERNMENT WHO ARE MORE CONCERENED ABOUT BEING POLITICALY CORRECT THAN ABOUT OUR PORTECTION.HE IS A TERRORIST!