I hate to echo anything the right-winger are spouting… but in this case I do think there is something to charge that “political correctness” is getting in the way of grappling with the Hasan case.

Hasan had intensified contact with radical Yemeni American cleric – washingtonpost.com

In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers and other steps that could translate his thoughts into action, according to two sources briefed on a collection of secret e-mails between the two.
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) said Friday that he would investigate the handling of the e-mails — 18 or 19 in all — and why military officials were not aware of them before the deadly attack. Levin told reporters after a briefing from Pentagon staff members that “there are some who are reluctant to call it terrorism, but there is significant evidence that it is.”

The reality is that this attack is potentially very, very dangerous because it provides a model for self-radicalized would-be martyrs.  We’ve been lucky that most of them so far have been focused on trying to emulate AQ-style spectaculars.  But the potential for copy-cats using the Columbine, VT, Ft. Hood model is significant.  If we try to downplay it as just a loner with psychological problems, we may be setting ourselves up for missing signs on future attacks.

Having thrown a bone to the right-wingers, let me also gore their ox on one point.  Hasan’s guns were legal.  And sooner or later, I think we’re going to need to confront the gun ownership issue with, at the very least, much stricter licensing or insurance requirements.