The shooting incident at the Washington Navy Yard that left 13 people including the shooter dead is not œunusual” in the United States, an analyst says.
œThis type of violence is not unusual. What is the cause of it? Well, one of the causes of course should be economic crisis. There is a cultural crisis as well, where people feel alienated from the country and traditions that they came from,” Bill Jones from Executive Intelligence Review told Press TV on Tuesday.
Former Navy reservist Aaron Alexis killed 12 people and wounded eight others at the Navy Yard complex in Washington, DC on Monday.
American officials said that the motives of the shooting are not yet known.
œIt™s still not exactly clear as to what the motives were for the person who… went to the Navy Yard, who was a consultant. It looks as if it™s another one of these things with a disgruntled employee,” Jones said.
œThere may have been political motives behind it. However, it came from what we can tell now that there was a problem he had individually with the Navy in his time there and he was taking out in this manner,” he added.
The 34-year-old Alexis joined the Navy in 2007 and he was kicked out of the military in 2011 as a result of a gun arrest in Fort Worth, Texas, according to US officials.
Alexis had been hired by a private contractor to do a project at the Navy Yard and had a security clearance and a valid military identification card, known as a common access card, which allows unfettered access into most facilities.
President Barack Obama promised “whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible.”
“We are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened at another military installation, in our nation’s capital,” Obama said.
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