drool, you ok? v. shots fired

Man kills self, hostage at NASA building

By MONICA RHOR, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago

HOUSTON - A
NASA contract worker took a handgun inside an office building Friday at the Johnson Space Center and fatally shot a hostage before killing himself, police said. A second hostage escaped with minor injuries. The gunman shot himself once in the head more than three hours after barricading himself on the second floor of Building 44, which houses a laboratory.


The slain hostage was probably killed "in the early minutes of the whole ordeal," Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready said.

None of those involved were immediately identified.

The man was believed to be an employee of Jacobs Engineering, which has a technical support contract with NASA.

"We understand it is one of our employees," said John Prosser, the company's executive vice president.

Roads within the 1,600-acre campus were blocked off during the confrontation. A nearby middle school also kept its teachers and students inside as classes ended.

NASA employees and contract workers were kept informed of the situation by e-mail.

Christine Reichert, space station flight controller at the space center, said employees were initially told to stay in their buildings. That restriction was lifted a few hours later.

Michael Zolensky, who studies cosmic dust at the space center, said workers were gathered around a television watching news reports of the situation.

Doors to Mission Control were locked as standard procedure.

President Bush was informed about the gunman as he flew back to Washington from an event in Michigan, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
 
Ban guns. The final solution to safety! Quick write your Congress critters.

Then only cops and crooks will have guns. I feel safer.

And, in the future, we will all be protected from the culture that teaches their 12 year olds to cut off heads. Coming to a theater near you:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6579487.stm

I think we need advanced education in begging and pleading. Maybe, if we give all the ruthless people our women and all of our possessions they will leave us alone. Or, maybe we will have to take it up the ass first, but hey, it's worth it if we can just... feel safer... that is, feel safer for a little bit; you know, before the psycho gets to our classroom - or, before the culture that trains 12 year olds how to use a knife expands to our town.

"Please, please Mr. Evildoer don't shoot me or cut my head off!"

Let's all practice. So we can get ready for when the guns are banned.
 
Ban guns. The final solution to safety! Quick write your Congress critters.

Then only cops and crooks will have guns. I feel safer.

And, in the future, we will all be protected from the culture that teaches their 12 year olds to cut off heads. Coming to a theater near you:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6579487.stm

I think we need advanced education in begging and pleading. Maybe, if we give all the ruthless people our women and all of our possessions they will leave us alone. Or, maybe we will have to take it up the ass first, but hey, it's worth it if we can just... feel safer... that is, feel safer for a little bit; you know, before the psycho gets to our classroom - or, before the culture that trains 12 year olds how to use a knife expands to our town.

"Please, please Mr. Evildoer don't shoot me or cut my head off!"

Let's all practice. So we can get ready for when the guns are banned.

Please quote me murder rates from a respectable source on countries that have eliminated guns.
 
Ugh, I have to go to work tomorrow. Im afraid to even imagine the shit-storm that will be awaiting us all. Theyll probably start frisking everyone that comes through the front gate now:rolleyes:
 
Ugh, I have to go to work tomorrow. Im afraid to even imagine the shit-storm that will be awaiting us all. Theyll probably start frisking everyone that comes through the front gate now:rolleyes:



i think you guys need to go to some classes on how to cope with your feelings after this tragic ordeal
 
They should just be banned in the US. Period.
:lol:

First you vote democrat, because the republicans 'need to be shown something', and now you are knee jerk banning guns.

Congrats, you are now a typical suburban soccer mom. Id est: spoon fed pop culture, politically correct, hypocritical luke warm socialist.
 
I really believe we should take the opposite tactic and arm EVERYONE! Make gun safety a mandatory high school class and hand out gun licenses like they do drivers licenses. If everyone was armed all the time, perhaps there would be less violence. Mugging someone who is carrying a weapon seems much more difficult. Some crazy man walks into a classroom full of college students and starts firing and the classroom full of students all pull out their guns and shoot back. Problem solved more quickly. We aren't going to get rid of guns, so take it the other way and see what happens.

Good luck at work tomorrow, Patrick. I hope everything gets back to normal soon.
 
I really believe we should take the opposite tactic and arm EVERYONE! Make gun safety a mandatory high school class and hand out gun licenses like they do drivers licenses. If everyone was armed all the time, perhaps there would be less violence. Mugging someone who is carrying a weapon seems much more difficult. Some crazy man walks into a classroom full of college students and starts firing and the classroom full of students all pull out their guns and shoot back. Problem solved more quickly. We aren't going to get rid of guns, so take it the other way and see what happens.

:heart:
 
You see, Joe average citizen has much common sense. The result of this run of shooters has sparked another round of gun purchases across the country (saw it on the news, to the dismay of the news babe reading the copy). The average person knows that, at best, they can expect fines and fundraising phone calls from the police; at worst, a toe tag. The average person suddenly became glaringly aware that gun free zones are a hoax and that they are responsible for their own safety – hence the rush to purchase a firearm.

So, this brings us to crime. Crime is the real issue here. As posted many times before, thugs don’t break into houses at night because somebody may be armed (just as they would not break into a business or school if they suspected somebody was armed). Statistics usually lag a few years because it takes a while to compile them. Check the links below for an interesting summary of gun control countries.

http://www.car-crime.com/crime_rate.htm

Women are the greatest victims of gun control. Rapes all over Europe are increasing.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=38559

women increased victims of gang rape:

http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_601_650/raped_by_a_muslim.htm

http://www.thetravelforum.com/t26373.html

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20646

In a world without handguns the biggest and strongest will prevail; in a world of handguns the meek and the weaker are all on equal terms with the big and the strong. For quite some time, disarmed western cultures (England, Australia etc) have been offering up their women as victims.

Well, what about the US? Guess what folks? The increased use of handguns by women across the country and increased CC states have proven that we truly care about our women folk, even if the gun grabbers do not. (the Washington Post piece below has a few feminists in denial about the numbers, but the decrease in rape in the US is so huge that it just cannot be denied!)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800610.html

Now, you can say guns had nothing to do about it. But, we are the country with the guns. All you got to do is open up your monthly copy of American Rifleman and you can see all the babes packing heat. It is a wonderful thing.
 
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:lol:

First you vote democrat, because the republicans 'need to be shown something', and now you are knee jerk banning guns.

Congrats, you are now a typical suburban soccer mom. Id est: spoon fed pop culture, politically correct, hypocritical luke warm socialist.

These are just the ones we hear about dude. It'd probably be much better if cops and crooks had guns, rather than cops, crooks, and the average emo idiot...