'Soldier' gets death sentence for Fort Hood attack

The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that a military jury on Wednesday sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, handing the Army psychiatrist the ultimate punishment after a trial in which he seemed to be courting martyrdom by making almost no effort to defend himself. ✧ The rare military death sentence came nearly four years after the attack that stunned even an Army hardened by more than a decade of constant war. Hasan walked into a medical building where soldiers were getting medical checkups, shouted "Allahu akbar" _ Arabic for "God is great!" _ and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. Thirteen people were killed. Read more at the GT...

Is it okay to call Hasan a 'terrorist' now?
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NRO: What Closing the Gun-Show Loophole Won’t Do

National Review, 1/16/2013 (Hat tip: J. Sinclair and John H. Detweiler) - Author, Clayton E. Cramer claims that, "It is an article of faith that closing the “gun-show loophole” would make America a safer place." He adds, "This might seem surprising, and at first glance, it is. Except for one little detail: Criminals appear not to buy guns at gun shows, because guns are expensive. It is so much cheaper to steal guns instead." Cramer presents details on gun theft as related to recent mass murders in the U.S. Read more at NRO...

Mr. Cramer teaches history at the College of Western Idaho. His most recent book is My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill (2012). Read More......