Yanks shooting Yanks (again)

[anon x]

[oye terence]

I would love to see some statistics on this.Military or civilian, it just seems like mass shootings like this seems to be completely as American as apple pie.

[Cassius]

A girl I know lives there.

[anon x]

Blimey,he's a Psychiatrist and a Major and STILL alive

[withmyheadonthebar]

I would love to see some statistics on this.Military or civilian, it just seems like mass shootings like this seems to be completely as American as apple pie.

They've crept into Europe in the past few years - there've been two or three in Finland and in Germany. But yeah, the phenomenon seems most prevalent in the US. Mark Ames' book 'Going Postal' suggests some interesting possible reasons for it (particularly with regard to workplace shootings, rather than school shootings). That's actually the best book I've read on spree killings (and I've read most of them), because it actually makes an effort to look into the socioeconomic reasons.

*takes off spree killing-study-person hat*
*puts it back on again and goes off to the forum I go on to discuss spree killing psychology*

[mick ransommich]

Maj Hasan is a military psychiatrist and was reportedly due to be sent on a mission to Iraq or Afghanistan.

His cousin said Maj Hasan had been resisting such a deployment.

"He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything," Nader Hasan told Fox News.

He also said that Nidal Malik Hasan had been battling racial harassment because of his "Middle Eastern ethnicity".