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This article is garbage.

This article is not garbage. Finally, someone id hitting the nail on the head. The problem here is not guns and it is not PTSD. The problem is the alphabet soup of drugs the VA was treating him with was highly likely for just such an outcome, and the VA will know exactly what they were, when someone brings this aspect to the fore.

Here is a prophetic article from Military Times, back five years ago:

Medicating the military — Use of psychiatric drugs has spiked; concerns surface about suicide, other dangers

Excerpts:

At least one in six service members is on some form of psychiatric drug.

And many troops are taking more than one kind, mixing several pills in daily "cocktails" — for example, an antidepressant with an antipsychotic to prevent nightmares, plus an anti-epileptic to reduce headaches — despite minimal clinical research testing such combinations.

The drugs come with serious side effects: They can impair motor skills, reduce reaction times and generally make a war fighter less effective. Some double the risk for suicide, prompting doctors — and Congress — to question whether these drugs are connected to the rising rate of military suicides.

"It's really a large-scale experiment. We are experimenting with changing people's cognition and behavior," said Dr. Grace Jackson, a former Navy psychiatrist.

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Combinations of drugs pose another risk. Doctors note that most drugs are tested as a single treatment, not as one ingredient in a mixture of medications.

"In the case of poly-drug use - the 'cocktail' — where you are combining an antidepressant, an anticonvulsant, an antipsychotic, and maybe a stimulant to keep this guy awake — that has never been tested," Breggin said.

Newcomer agreed. "When we go to the literature and try to find support for these complex cocktails, we're not going to find it," he said. "As the number of medications goes up, the probability of adverse events like hospitalization or death goes up exponentially."

Read the whole article, at the risk of showing that your opinion may be ill-informed.