Fort Hood Massacre

Nothing seems to work. It’s like you have one choice left. The last choice and perhaps the worst one. You don’t want to be violent but it seems that’s the only way you can get rid of your nasty job. You don’t want to kill your Muslim brothers and sisters. Why don’t these people understand? You have long tolerated their insults. You wanted to quit but they didn’t let you. And now, you are faced with something you never expected. You are on the wrong side. You have to go and help the enemies of your Muslim brothers. What can you do? Is there a way out? You don’t want to hurt anyone but how can you stop them from sending you to Iraq? These thoughts are driving you crazy. And at last you go for the last option. Gun is the solution. Not the best one but the only one left. You know that your action is not justified but you do it anyway and you kill 13 people. This is what happened at Fort Hood, Texas, on Thursday 5th November. Nidal Malik Hassan, an army psychiatrist, did not want to go to Afghanistan. So he shot 13 people dead and injured 31. Now the story of Major Hassan’s shooting is all over the media. He is a Muslim. You hear and read this many times. Muslims are terrorists. But have we not seen such shootings in the army before? Aren’t many Americans the victims of gun? In fact “at Fort Hood some violence is too familiar.” According to New York Times “ Staff Sgt. Gilberto Mota, 35, and his wife, Diana, 30, an Army specialist, had returned to Fort Hood from Iraq last year when he used his gun to kill her, and then took his own life, the authorities say. In July, two members of the First Cavalry Division, also just back from the war with decorations for their service, were at a party when one killed the other. That same month, Staff Sgt. Justin Lee Garza, 28, under stress from two deployments, killed himself in a friend’s apartment outside Fort Hood.” Now the case of Hassan has turned into a means to attack Muslims. I don’t think these actions have got anything to do with religion especially Islam. Gun is a part of American culture. If you have no Gun, you are not an American. You are in the army, you have gun and you want to protect yourself. What do you do?