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Posted by: coreyspring 2 years, 7 months agoThere's a developing story out of Clear Lake, where part of Johnson Space Center has been evacuated amid reports of gunfire. According to ABC News reports, a SWAT team has rushed the building, but has not yet emerged with the suspect.
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lfergie812
April 20, 2007, 5:51 p.m.Good story corey, still waiting for the outcome but I do wish they wouldn't televise these stories so much. Just give an update every so often but stop the continuous coverage.
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BrianJJohnson
April 20, 2007, 6:33 p.m.very sad indeed...thats 10 minutes from the house i grew up at.
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abraham1861
April 20, 2007, 6:46 p.m.what next..the media will probably make this guy as big as John Wayne...
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icanread
April 20, 2007, 6:47 p.m.Ban Guns! They are inflicting violence! Oh my goodness, get the liberals out and demand to ban guns! Why are people afraid of something so small as a "hand gun"? Assault weapons look scary (spice)
Vote Democrat! :)
Kiesha
New Town, Sarasota, Florida
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abraham1861
April 20, 2007, 6:47 p.m.I'm glad the guy shot himself...saves the taxpayers some money..
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pacificmist
April 20, 2007, 8:03 p.m.What the hell is happening to people and I hope it isn't catching. because I don't want any of it. And lay off Bush we re elected him so live with it.
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agentX
April 20, 2007, 9:14 p.m.Oh lord have mercy! Not another shootout! Now it's NASA.
This ****** has got to stop. If you don't like school, QUIT AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. If you don't like your job, QUIT AND GET A BETTER ONE!
If you lose your job, it's not the end of the world. Shooting your boss is not the solution, even if he deserved it.
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truthiness
April 20, 2007, 11:22 p.m.in philadelphia, where I live, we are on track for 500 murders. last year we hit 490. they tried to tell us it wasnt that bad b/c we hit this high ten years ago. one statistic they left out...ten years ago the majority of those killings werent done by minors to minors.
about two months ago two teenagers got into a gunfight outside a movietheater opening over a minor argument.
about five months ago I was in abar with the chief of homicide for philadelphia, I asked him if he though the drug war was accelerating the problem the way prohibition did, he replied "that may be a part of it, but usually these kids are shooting each other over things like you looked at my girl wrong..."
we somehow have become a society plagued by sociopaths. how did this happen? why are we not having this discussion publicly? one school shooting, one workplace shooting, is a freak occurance by a madman, but a continual cycle increasing exponentially since the 90s is a comment on our culture.
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jordan11
April 20, 2007, 11:43 p.m.NASA spokesman Doug Peterson said the agency would review its security.>>>>>
LOL, that just strikes me as funny. Review BEFORE something happens! Be proactive!! Does anyone in government have a brain any more?
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moot51
April 21, 2007, 7:35 a.m.Maybe we need to quit blaming gun laws, Bush, liberals and everything else and look at the state of "The Family" in our country. Lets face it, our kids are growing up in a society where if you try to impose punishment for doing wrong all they have to do is say they are being treated mean and the parents go to jail. We have lost control of instilling values in our children. If kids aren't raised with a certain amount of knowing what is right and what is wrong, then as adults they aren't going to do any better. As it stands now, the schools preach to kids daily that if they don't want to do something the parents have told them to all they have to do is cry abuse. Come on,,,get real,,,there are deeper causes of incidents like this that will cause the ruin of life as we knew it.
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zcaveman
April 21, 2007, 7:54 a.m.Whats going on with the people that work for NASA? Its like their in outerspace or something.
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LordOfChaos
April 21, 2007, 1:50 p.m.NASA can't figure out proper security? Aren't they, like, ROCKET SCIENTISTS or something?
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el-jefe
April 22, 2007, 10:03 a.m.Space program defunct? I suppose that depends on your definition of defunct. Suni Williams, the astronaut who is circling the earth on the Space Station as I type these words, might disagree.
The space shuttle was designed in the 1970s with 1970s technology, not 1960s. It's a significant improvement in technology over the rockets that were used in the 1960s. The avionics were also completely redesigned in the 1990s, and was state of the art at that time (glass cockpit, if you know enough about these sort of things to know what that means).
The entire NASA annual budget is around $16 billion a year, so your comment about Iraq is certainly plausible. Last I checked, we were "only" spending about $300 billion a year in Iraq, so let's make it fair and say we're spending the entire NASA annual budget every 2 months in Iraq.
And Kim Nowak became pathological as an astronaut...she could have never gotten in if she was nuts when she was hired.
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el-jefe
April 22, 2007, 10:06 a.m.The Chinese have no interest in building a shuttle, and don't have the prowess to do it. Their space program is about where the Soviet Union was in the early 1970s...which is much more advanced than you might think. Still not capable of building a shuttle, though.
Remember, we went to the moon in the 1960s...the Chinese are considering doing the same thing.
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mom4rtroops
April 21, 2007, 3:23 p.m.Heck I have a gun! and have had to use it! One to scare off my ex who liked to hit, kick and beat the living snot out of me. Two to chase off a bear while camping who was coming into our property after vandals trashed our cabin and left food out for the bears to smell. If I caould catch the vandals I would love to use the gun for the 3rd time to force them into the cabin and make them stay there with food all around so the bear can come back again and let them get a feel of what they put us through!
Our guns stay in a safe! WE don't use them to commit crimes! My husband and I both served our country and have them to keep us safe. These people do these shootings to get attention and when a event is spread all over the news, TV, magazines, everywhere you look it just leads to others saying "Hey look at ME" I can do it too"
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mscsrrrcom
April 21, 2007, 4:02 p.m.This is an absolute horror.
If NASA, the most important center of American technological prowess is not secured, then what about the rest of the entire country?
I hope this will be a BIG WAKE UP CALL TO NOT ONLY THE AUTHORITIES BUT THE WHOLE OF AMERICA.
Ikey Benney mscsrrr.com
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B1BLancer
April 21, 2007, 5:50 p.m.Man, this has NOT been a good year for NASA. First Lisa Nowak, then Atlantis being bombarded on the launch pad by hail, and now this!
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sithlordO2
April 21, 2007, 7:53 p.m.Expect more of these types of shootings in the workplace and schools. "Let's arm everyone!!".....ya right.
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Egodeus
April 22, 2007, 12:38 p.m.Well lets make all guns illegal, the only people having them would be the criminals, hmm doesn't work, instead lets let everyone in the country have a gun, carnage still ensues since the criminals would still have them. Well lets try making it a lot harder for someone to legally have a gun, yet again the criminals will continue to have them. It seems to me the only way to solve the gun problem isn't by changing the guns but by changing the people. The question is how to do that and currently i don't think anyone has an answer.
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