I'm not sure if you are old enough to remember the young man who shot a bunch of people from atop the University of Texas tower in 1966.

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And when you see a guy who suddenly snaps, a guy who goes nuts, a Charles Whitman, who goes to the top of the Texas tower and shoots a whole bunch of people, when a guy goes postal -- that's the current slang -- that's a guy with a fire in his wires, basically.

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From February 1981 to August 1983, Mr. Gaffney was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Senator John Tower (R-Texas).

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