# Multiple Shootings At Fort Hood **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2009, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-shootings-at-fort-hood/516472 "2009-11-05T21:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 342
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-shootings-at-fort-hood/516472/342 "2026-10-09T19:12:22Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > > [@robby](#): > > > > he refused multiple offers of clemency > > You mean refused several offers to be sent back into the meatgrinder. “Tear up this note and we’ll let you go back to being shot at, which you were forced to do by a government that ripped you away from your life against your choice”. That isn’t an indicator of his idiocy, it is an indicator of the pure evil of drafted military slavery. This seems like a rather large topic not really connected to this thread, so I started a new thread here: > [@Is a military draft ever justified?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-military-draft-ever-justified/1033707/1): > > Continuing the discussion from [Multiple Shootings At Fort Hood](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-shootings-at-fort-hood/516472/336): In the linked thread, @Darren_Garrison characterizes the draft (specifically in WWII) as “the pure evil of drafted military slavery.” Is he right? Was the military draft in WWII “pure evil”? Stated another way: Was the draft in WWII morally justified? And more broadly, is a military draft ever justified? I don’t believe the draft in WWII was evil. I think WWII was morally justified for the U.S. to engage in, and I know of no wa… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-shootings-at-fort-hood/516472)._