Random violence is not a unique event. In the SAME WEEK this tragedy took place at Fort Hood, Jason Rodriguez opened fire in the offices of his former employer in Florida killing 1 person and wounding 5 others. THIS YEAR Michael McLendon murdered his mother and then set off on a 24-mile shooting spree in Alabama during which he fired more than 200 rounds and killed 10 more people, including himself; and, Jiverly Voong opened fire at an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton, NY, killing as many as 13 people before shooting himself. This was not the first such event at a military installation this year. Sgt. John M. Russell of the 54th Engineering Battalion killed 5 soldiers at the Camp Liberty military stress counseling clinic in Iraq.

There have been many tragic shooting sprees over the years. For example:

Similar civilian incidents

1966 – Charles Whitman killed his wife and mother and then went up to a tower at the University of Texas in Austin and killed 14 people and wounded 32 others before the police killed him.
1970 – 29 members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on the Kent State University college campus, killing 4 and wounding 9 others.
1984 – James Oliver Huberty went into a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, CA and killed 21 people and injured 19 others before being killed himself.
1991 – George Hennard drove into Luby’s diner in Killeen, TX and killed 23 people and wounded more than 20 before committing suicide.
1999 – Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold went into their Columbine H.S. and killed 13 people and injured wounded 24 before commitng suicide.
2002 – John Allen Muhammad & Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and wounded 3 people in D.C., MD, and VA.
2005 – Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend on the Red Lake, MN Chippewa reservation, then went to Red Lake H.S. where he killed 7 people and wounded 5 others before committing suicide.
2006 – Charles Carl Roberts IV went into an Amish school in Lancaster County, PA and killed 5 girls before committing suicide.
2007 – Seung-Hui Cho went on a rampage at Virginia Tech and killed 32 people and wounded many others before committing suicide.
2007 – Sulejman Talovic went on a rampage in a Utah mall and killed 5 people and wounded 4 before being shot.

Similar military incidents

The military has not been immune from this sort of incident. Attacks on fellow soldiers were dubbed “fragging” in Vietnam. The Christian Science Monitor reports that: “Between 1969 and 1971, the Army reported 600 fragging incidents that killed 82 and wounded 651.” More recently such incidents continue:

1995 – Sgt. William J. Kreutzer, Jr. killed one officer and wounded 17 other soldiers when he opened fire on a formation at Fort Bragg, NC.
2003 – Army sergeant Hasan Karim Akbar killed two officers of the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in Iraq (He was a Muslim convert)
2005 – Two officers were killed at Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, Iraq by a deliberately placed mine. Staff Sergeant Alberto B. Martinez was charged in the killing but was acquitted in a court martial trial at Fort Bragg, NC.
2006 – Pvt. Steven Green raped a 14-year-old girl, and killed her and 3 other members of her family in Iraq
2007 – Master Sgt. John Hatley convicted of the execution-style killings of 4 bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees near Baghdad.
2007 – Olin Ferrier, a Fort Carson, CO soldier killed a taxi driver in Pueblo, CO
2008 – Staff Sgt. Brandon Norris killed Spc. Kamisha Block and then committed suicide in Iraq. The military first reported this as a death by “friendly fire”.
2008 – Spc. Jody Michael Wirawan killed 1st Lt. Robert Bartlett Fletcher at Fort Hood and then committed suicide
2008 – Dustin Thorson, an Air Force technical sergeant killed his son and daughter on Tinker Air Base, OK. (He had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after returning from Iraq.)
2008 – Edgar Patino, a soldier at Fort Bragg, NC killed another soldier Spc. Megan Touma who was pregnant.
2009 – Jomar Falu Vives a Fort Carson, CO soldier and Iraq war veteran accused of killing 2 people and wounding another in drive-by shootings.    »»» The American Muslim (U.S.)

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