A few thoughts, stemming from the murderous rampage at Fort Hood.<\/p>\n
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While some are cautioning<\/a> us to not immediately make a radical Muslim connection with the fact that the alleged killer is an Arab American, one has to wonder at how quickly the label “Right-Wing-Extremist”<\/a> would have been applied had the mass murderer been white.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n It appears that the alleged killer was stopped by shots fired from a civilian police officer<\/a>. Per CNN,<\/p>\n A civilian police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage stopped the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said Friday.<\/p>\n Officer Kimberly Munley of the Fort Hood Police Department is a “trained, active first responder” who acted quickly after she “just happened to encounter the gunman,” said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, Fort Hood’s commanding general.<\/p>\n Cone said the officer and her partner responded “very quickly” to the scene of the shootings — reportedly in around three minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n One point of clarification, if Officer Munley was on duty, and responded quickly to the situation, she was a second responder<\/em> (which in no way diminishes from her courageous actions). First responders would be those initially and directly under fire.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n President Obama continues<\/a>, unfortunately, to approach serious issues in amateur fashion. In the video<\/a> below, consider the fact that Obama took nearly two minutes to actually get to the topic of the shooting at Fort Hood. Evidently, he thought that giving various “shout-outs” had a higher priority.<\/p>\n