3 lessons our politicians should learn from Fort Hood

Chuck Norris mourns loss of soldiers in 1 more mass shooting on Army post.

As with all Americans, my wife, Gena, and my hearts broke again as we heard about another murder spree last Wednesday at Fort Hood, Texas, in which three courageous people were killed and 16 more were injured at the one of the U.S. Army’s largest military installations.

Chelsea Schilling, a WND editor and journalist extraordinaire, reported just shortly after the tragedy, “The shooter, identified as 34-year-old Ivan Lopez, is among the dead. Lopez reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” but only after first being confronted by a brave female military police officer who approached the Iraq war veteran in the parking lot. (Interestingly, it was also a female cop who was responsible for thwarting the Fort Hood gunman in 2009 who killed 13 people – the deadliest attack on a domestic military base in U.S. history.)

Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, III Corps commander at Fort Hood, said the shooter last week was a soldier who was under evaluation for post-traumatic stress disorder and this Iraq War veteran struggled with a history of depression and anxiety.

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