>>>>I've been following the story in Ohio....that man is sick, sick, sick, and deserves the gas.
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>>>We don't agree about the death penalty but this guy seems about as evil as they come. For sure he should never be eligible for parole.
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>>yes, it would certainly be wrong for the army to take the life of someone who killed a dozen of our troops. I am sure that in more civilized nations the military is not allowed to kill people who kill them. I fear we may not be that evolved or nuanced.
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>>Had he been shot down, as he should have been, after the first shot by an armed soldier - as they all should have been at all times - it would have been considered proper, but if someone were to walk into his hospital room ( I volunteer ) and put one behind his ear right now it would induce a case of the vapors in all right-(or should I say left-) thinking citizens.
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>>Strikes me as similar to the "5 second rule" about eating food that fell on the floor ...
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>I thought the only people allowed to carry weapons on military bases are MPs. Everyone else's weapons are kept locked up.

Obviously not unless the nutbar was an MP. There is absolutely no good reason for the victims or others in the area to not have been carrying a side arm. (though my understanding is it is SOP for domestic bases.) If he had been a "terrorist" instead of a nut-case with God talking in his ear ( boy, we are making fine distinctions here) the soldiers would have been equally defenseless.

There is stuff coming out now about intercepts that show him communicating with a radical imam in Yemen etc and if it turns out that any kind of political correctness was involved in not de-commissioning him and removing him from the army there are going to be some careers very very short-circuited.