Shots fired inside D.C. naval facility
Source: CNN
(CNN) -- Shots were fired Monday morning inside the Washington Navy Yard, the U.S. Navy tweeted.
The incident occurred at 8:20 a.m.
Three shots were fired at the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, in southeast Washington, D.C., the tweet said
obviously more to come.....
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/index.html
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rocktivity
How likely is it that armed non-employees would be able to waltz in and start shooting people?
I may be wrong, but speculation or not, the odds ARE in my favor.
rocktivity
As I love to point out, the English invented rhythm. 
But you just keep pushing it. You just keep telling yourself you don't have an agenda if it makes you feel better.
its a pretty compact facility. I see they are using Park Police choppers to evact victims.
The area outside is pretty busy with lots of new business' , shop etc.
guns and idiots with a grievance. Bad mix.
one shooter so far as reported MSNBC. Who the hell knows. Still too early. Some are saying shooter is black male, some are saying male dressed all in black. Who knows, us out here in public land? No matter, still nuts with guns.
In the interest of trying to not further make this bad bad situation worse.
Hubby works a mile away from all of this. He's safe, thankfully -- but it is physically VERY close to home. 
My guess is the Navy Yard is not close enough to the US Capitol or Congressional office bldgs for the repuke obstructionists to pass gun control measures. They will continue to listen to their puppetmasters in the gun lobby and NRA (one and the same).
There are all sorts of accounts that the weapons used were taken from an officer.
A shotgun was purchased, but it is now actually being put in print that the pistol and rifle were from at least one victim:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Confirmed-Shooter-at-Navy-Yard-One-Person-Shot-223897891.html
"When it was over, Alexis lay dead amid an armload of weapons. Sources told News4 that surveillance footage showed that he began his attack with a shotgun, but was found with a 9mm pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle
Alexis appears to have seized firearms from two of his victims as he moved through the building along the Anacostia River in southeast Washington, where 3,000 Navy employees go to work each day, many of them carrying authorized firearms."
That was, what, 6/7 years ago? He killed an IRS manger.
Domestic Terrorism tends to be "low level" - usually threats and/or sabotage, and because it's usually a "local issue", one doesn't hear much about it. It's the difference between your angry, unemployed adult brother who burns down the garage you've turned into an apartment for him in a fit of drunken rage "by accident", and a burglary from "teen punks/gangstas" - whom your kid hangs out with at school and happened to talk about the nifty stuff - like guns and expensive recreational equipment - you collect, and when the family will be out of town to visit grandma for a couple of days.
While both are pretty much the same level of "by accident", you're not going to write a letter to the editor demanding the police do something about your stupid brother; but you will demand additional police enforcement due to the burglary even though you got hit because your kid was stupid enough to get involved with young punks who had nothing left to lose and nothing better to do.
Brother is Family. Punks are not.
Domestic Terrorists are angry, alienated Americans - the ones who join organizations that feed off that anger and alienation. Like militias, political "groups", racial or religious supremacy groups, etc - all with an authoritarian, militant bent so those alienated Americans could feel all strong, special and otherwise exceptional. They usually terrorize their families, their "customers" (if they're in service or retail) and their local governments by enforcing their collective organizational rules and restricting liberties and resources on those other categories of people who "don't belong".
So, while those groups aren't politically sexy/scary as an Islamic terrorist group, they do exist and they are very, very active in trying to push their agenda - especially on people who don't belong to their groups.
And occasionally, someone in an organization like that will decide s/he has had enough and go all-out Rambo, taking a couple - or a dozen or so - people with him or her on the trail to glory.
But since it's an American that did it (especially if it was a "good old boy next door" type) , too many people want to white-wash it as "s/he just went crazy" and claim that the organizations that actively promoted that destructive spree as being something noble and godly to do had absolutely nothing to do with the damage that crazy person did. It's all Milk and Honey in RW extremist land - as long as they get their way and can still blather their hyper-violent nonsense without any responsibility for their words.
BTW, the shooter has been identified as a contractor in his 30's from Texas. I suppose he could have been an Islamist, or he could have been a RW extremist, or a LW anti-war extremist - or it could be that he was angry and his pride was hurt because world wasn't working out the way it had been promised to him. But, he decided to make this a case of domestic terrorism, and 11 other people are dead, many more injured and probably a couple thousand traumatized.
I'm p.o.ed, and the office is shutting down because of the situation.
Haele
So awful. So Damned AWFUL. I'm so sorry, haele. So fucking SENSELESS!!!!!!!!!
I'm with wordpix farther up-thread who posted the question - "is it time for gun control yet?"
Someone should tell the military to give guns to everybody on post.
had a history of these, plus "misdemeanors" with guns including shooting out 4 tires of people he didn't like and shooting into the ceiling of a neighbor who had complained about his noise. Father said he had anger managemt problems. But state of VA gives him a rifle, anyway, 3 days before Navy Yard shooting.