For the first 24 hours, this story was updated as additional details became available.

By Chad D. Baus

A murderous rampage killing was carried out today at Texas’ Ft. Hood Army base by American Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

According to news reports, ten soldiers and two civilians were killed and thirty-one wounded in the attack. Initial reports said Hasan was also killed in an exchange of gunfire with a female police officer, but it now appears he is in custody, and in stable condition, having been shot four times. Reports also said two other suspects, who are also soldiers, were also apprehended, then later released.

From the ABC News:

[Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone] said there were “eyewitness accounts of more than one shooter,” and the others were tracked to an adjacent facility.

Cone called the attack “a terrible tragedy, stunning.” He said the community was “absolutely devastated.”

President Obama called the Fort Hood shootings a “horrific outburst of violence.”

…Cone said the motive for the attack, which took place just after 1:30 p.m. CT, is unclear.

When news first breaks about yet another tragic mass shooting in this country, the minds of many gun owners go immediately to wondering whether it occured (like the vast majority do) in a “no-guns” zone, where the victims are rendered defenseless either by law or policy.

One would like to think that, of all the government-controlled properties in America that have been turned into “no-guns” victim zones, our Army bases would not be among them.

If you thought that, however, you thought wrong.