Quote:HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- A gunman who took two hostages Friday at NASA's Johnson Space Center has apparently killed himself and one hostage, police said.
Another hostage has been taken to the hospital, said Houston Police Capt. Dwayne Ready.
The gunman forced the evacuation of the building and put the entire center on alert around 1:40 p.m. ET.
Earlier a witness in Building 44 on the campus reported two shots fired, said Ready, who described the suspect as a white man with blond hair, about 5 feet 9 inches and 50 to 60 years old. He had a handgun, said Ready.
Ready said he had barricaded himself in a room. The apparent suicide happened on the second floor of Building 44, he added.
The call for help came in to the Houston Police at 1:40 p.m. (2:40 p.m. ET) but it's unclear who made that call.
There is "extremely tight security" at Johnson Space Center, NASA spokesman James Hartfield said.
A NASA spokesperson told CNN that all employees have been told to go home for the day.
Space Center Intermediate School, less than a mile south of Building 44, was locked down, said Karen Permetti, spokeswoman for Clear Creek Independent School District. The lockdown was lifted at about 4 p.m. (5 p.m. ET).
The school has about 1,200 students, according to the school district.
As standard procedure, Mission Control's doors were locked, The Associated Press reported.
This just arms the religious right to fight against science even further.
If the media would stop showing the VT a-hole's story, maybe copycats wouldn't be happening. The guy wanted fame and he has it. They should focus on the victims and their families more if they want to continue talking about the shooting.
Maybe I'm using too much of my brain here, but why are these victims all of a sudden extraordinary heroes with incredible stories of courage and strength and overcoming obesity and whatever the fuck else? Yeah, some good young kids died and that sucks. But of the 32, odds are at least 18 of them were probably big assholes (aka a-holes's) that, in the long run, the world is better off without. Just because you get killed in a fucked up, tragic way does not automatically make you an inspirational hero. Their lives were completely irrelevant until they got killed, then the media decided that they are somehow more special than any other (living) college student in the country.
Cunt.
Bloody Anus Wrote:Maybe I'm using too much of my brain here
maybe but I highly doubt it.
Bloody Anus Wrote:Maybe I'm using too much of my brain here, but why are these victims all of a sudden extraordinary heroes with incredible stories of courage and strength and overcoming obesity and whatever the fuck else? Yeah, some good young kids died and that sucks. But of the 32, odds are at least 18 of them were probably big assholes (aka a-holes's) that, in the long run, the world is better off without. Just because you get killed in a fucked up, tragic way does not automatically make you an inspirational hero. Their lives were completely irrelevant until they got killed, then the media decided that they are somehow more special than any other (living) college student in the country.
Cunt.
because post-9/11 this bewildered heard of sheep have been made vulnerable, and the press patronizes the audience ever since with such piles of bullshit and fake emotional candor. The news is manipulative garbage.
so what you both are saying is you feel no connection to people when tragedies happen? You can't feel something without it being considered "fake" emotions? I feel sorry for you both.
whether you feel a connection or not, the news will sell itself to a tragedy demographic. News is now a sold commodity...bent to fashion itself around items and with theme music and tears. any connection a reporter or news anchor might feel has been lost by corporate filters, lawyers and businesses who ply in emotion as just another feature to get you to watch. The tragedy was felt that very day. Ever after is just a whore trying to empathize without any real substanstial feeling.
You post is muddled based on a dislike and disrespect of anyone elses opinion, chalking them up that nobody feels anything (meaning we). And that is a complete warping of exactly what we are referring to. Nobody said WE don't feel anything. But I do say they don't when they go to the tragedy well with melodramatic pieces after melodramatic pieces to capture that sense of horror and sadness we might have felt first reading about the story.
No I wasn't purposely trying to warp your opinion. My post was partly a reaction. BA called me cunt - if anyone is disliking or disrespecting someone's opinion, I'd say it were the other way around. That being said, I agree on what you said about the media's whoring of tragedies.
The only "real" hero was the professor who used his body to block the deranged gunman from murdering his students. The rest of them are typical people, center-centered and useless when the shit hits the fan.
funsnapsdyno Wrote:Bloody Anus Wrote:Maybe I'm using too much of my brain here
maybe but I highly doubt it.
he uses more brain power when he takes a shit than you do in a year.
The English language is fucking stupid.
Cunt.
See, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with an opinion. It's just an effective way of ending any correspondence with someone that is/has a cunt.