UPDATE: Fort Lee Soldier Takes Her Own Life at Army Post
Posted: August 25, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News | Tags: Fort Hood, Military base, Naval Station Norfolk, NBC News, Texas, United States Armed Forces, Washington Navy Yard, WWBT 2 CommentsA soldier took her own life at Fort Lee Monday morning, prompting a lockdown for a portion of the morning, U.S. military and law enforcement officials told NBC News.
Fort Lee officials say the incident was reported at Combined Arms Support Command Headquarters, building 5020. The woman entered the building “brandishing a gun,” which she reportedly turned on herself.
Military officials say the woman was an active-duty soldier.
No other information has been released.
According to WWBT, the incident comes as the post was preparing to release a new emergency notification system.
The last shooting on a military installation was reported in April, when an Iraq War veteran killed three people and injured 16 others at Fort Hood, Texas, before shooting himself. The shooter was identified was Ivan A. Lopez, 34. Read the rest of this entry »
Reality Check: U.S. Has More Guns, Fewer Homicides than Russia
Posted: October 1, 2013 Filed under: Global, Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: Gun control, homicide, Joe Manchin, NPR, Piers Morgan, RUSSIA, United States, Washington Navy Yard 1 Comment
I sneer at gun laws. I sneer at America. Bring me that zombie target! No, wait, bring me the Obama target. I hear a phone ringing. Do you hear a phone ringing? Where were we?
AWR Hawkins reports: In an effort to provide Obama with cover and respond to Russian Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Alexei Pushkov’s mocking of the Washington Navy Yard shooting, National Public Radio (NPR) dug up some facts about shootings and gun crime around the world and made a startling discovery–the U.S. has more guns than Russia but fewer homicides.
According to NPR, on the day of the Navy Yard shooting, Pushkov tweeted: “A new shootout at Navy Headquarters in Washington…A clear confirmation of American exceptionalism.”
In response, NPR wrote, “Pushkov sneers at U.S. gun laws, but how to do the stats look in Russia?”
There are fewer than 13 million firearms in circulation in Russia, compared with an estimated 300 million in the United States. That works out to about 9 guns per 100 people in Russia and close to 100 guns per 100 people in America.
[Yet] the most recent homicide statistics for Russia show there were 21,603 [murders in Russia] in 2009… [while] the United States had 13,636 homicides in 2009 with a population that is more than twice as large.
Russia has the type of gun control law Democrats in the United States have being pushing since Columbine. Read the rest of this entry »
FBI Releases Video Of Navy Yard Shooter Moving Through Building
Posted: September 25, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Aaron Alexis, Alexis, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Parlave, Remington Model 870, Toyota Prius, Washington Navy Yard 2 Comments
The FBI on Wednesday released some preliminary findings in its investigation of the Washington Navy Yard shootings that left 13 people dead including the shooter.
Perhaps the most chilling piece of evidence released is security video that shows Aaron Alexis, 34, methodically moving through Building #197 armed with a sawed-off shotgun. During a press conference, Valerie Parlave, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said he was shooting at random people. We’ll embed the video; it doesn’t show Alexis shooting, but be warned some may still find it very disturbing: Read the rest of this entry »
Yard shooting: Swat team awaits answers
Posted: September 22, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: ABC News, BBC, Capitol Police, Incident response team, Police, SWAT, Washington DC, Washington Navy Yard 2 Comments
Personnel returned to work at the Washington Navy Yard on Thursday
Debbie Siegelbaum writes: Members of a Washington DC Swat team who the BBC has learned were ordered not to respond to Monday’s Navy Yard shootings have yet to be contacted by the authorities.
The Capitol Police tactical response team was told by a supervisor to leave the scene instead of aiding municipal officers, sources told the BBC.
Meanwhile, the department has installed a new leader of the elite unit. No reason has been given for the decision. Read the rest of this entry »
Now Is Not the Time for New Gun Laws
Posted: September 19, 2013 Filed under: Politics, U.S. News | Tags: AR-15, CNN, Dianne Feinstein, James Alan Fox, Mass murder, Piers Morgan, Sandy Hook, Washington Navy Yard 1 Comment
A Washington, D.C., Metro police officer (left) and a Washington Naval District policeman (right) stand guard at the main gate of the Washington Navy Yard. (Jason Reed/Reuters
In the wake of the D.C. shooting, some lawmakers are pushing for new regulations on firearms. But legislation should never be passed in the heat of a crisis.
Nick Gillespie writes: Monday’s horrific mass shooting at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard left 12 victims (plus the shooter) dead and more than a dozen people wounded. It has raised immediate, impassioned, and understandable—if ultimately misguided—calls for increased levels of gun control now.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a longtime proponent of assault-weapons bans whose effectiveness is questionable at best, announced that the killer was armed with a “military-style assault weapon” and asked, “When will enough be enough?” She argued for restricting sales of AR-15 rifles even though the shooter was not armed with that weapon. Read the rest of this entry »
Opinion: The impossibility of gun control
Posted: September 19, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Self Defense | Tags: AR-15, CNN, Daily News, Joe Biden, Mike Lupica, Rich Lowry, United States, Washington Navy Yard 3 Comments
The Navy Yard rampage demonstrates the gun control debate’s sterility, the author says. | AP Photo
For Politico, Rich Lowry writes: The Navy Yard massacre won’t revive the gun debate in Congress for a simple reason. There is no gun control agenda this side of a total ban and confiscation that would have stopped Aaron Alexis.
The Toomey-Manchin bill could have passed Congress unanimously. The assault weapons ban could still be in place. Gun-controllers could have achieved their long-ago goal of barring the private purchase of handguns. And every step of his mayhem at the Washington Navy Yard would have been unimpeded. Read the rest of this entry »
WARNING: Our government is a threat to public safety
Posted: September 18, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: Fort Hood, Government Accountability Office, Los Angeles, Los Angeles International Airport, Marsha Blackburn, Transportation Security Administration, TSA, Washington Navy Yard 1 CommentMichelle Malkin writes: Forget gun control. America needs government control. Have you noticed the common thread among several mass killings and homeland security incidents lately?
Time and again, it’s the control freaks in Washington who have fallen down on their jobs, allowing crazies, creeps and criminals to roam free and wreak havoc while ignoring rampant red flags. Let’s review:
Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis: Despite gun-grabbing Democrats’ best efforts to blame a nonexistent “AR-15″ for this week’s horrific Navy Yard massacre, the truth is seeping out about shooter Aaron Alexis. The 34-year-old Navy veteran had been treated since August by the Veterans Administration for a host of mental problems that plagued him for up to a decade. Read the rest of this entry »
New York Times gets it wrong, media obsessed with linking AR-15 with Navy Yard shooter
Posted: September 17, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Self Defense | Tags: Alexis, AR-15, Assault rifle, Dan Peterson, Firearm, New York Times, Virginia, Washington Navy Yard, Washington Times 1 CommentThe liberal media is so obsessed with linking the Navy Yard shooter with the AR-15 rifle that it is making up false tales of Aaron Alexis trying to obtain one.
The New York Times attempts to give the impression that a so-called assault-weapon law stopped Alexis from buying a rifle in Virginia, but that is not true.
At least 13 dead in Navy Yard rampage; one shooter dead, another suspect cleared
Posted: September 16, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption | Tags: Cathy Lanier, Kristina Wong, Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, Navy Yard, Washington Navy Yard, Washington Times 1 Comment
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray said at least 13 people were killed in the Navy Yard rampage as D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier revealed one shooter was killed at the scene and and a second man was cleared of involvement in the attack.
A search for a third shooter has been called off. More here.
Kristina Wong and Jacqueline Klimas -The Washington Times
RAW VIDEO: Washington Navy yard helicopter airlift [AP]
Posted: September 16, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Associated Press, helicopter pilot, Naval Sea Systems Command, Twitter, United States Navy, Washington DC, Washington Navy Yard 1 CommentRAW VIDEO: A person is airlifted by helicopter from the scene of a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard: http://t.co/4JNOuQz5AH -MM
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 16, 2013