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.\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
Former Navy reservist Aaron Alexis killed 12 people and wounded eight others at the Navy Yard complex in Washington, DC on Monday.\n<\/p>\n
American officials said that the motives of the shooting are not yet known.\n<\/p>\n
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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
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.\n<\/p>\n
President Barack Obama promised “whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible.”\n<\/p>\n
“We are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened at another military installation, in our nation’s capital,” Obama said.\n<\/p>\n
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