Police find getaway car of army veteran suspected of deadly Montana bar shooting

BBC ^ | 07/02/2025 | Nadine Yousif

[redfreedom]

An Army vet that “just snapped”? With this bring in the PTSD ref flag people? I hope not.

There’s bound to be a motive and the cops will likely figure it out.

[Texas Eagle]

A guy who wasn’t even their is a source of information? Ohhhkayyy.

[Texas Eagle]

Sometimes I think I’m the only person who doesn’t have PTSD. Which I feel like is giving me PTSD.

[Red6]

“Just snapped.”

It’s the mustache!

[Round Earther]

“According to public records, he lived next door to the bar.

“He just snapped”

Maybe they played Achy Breaky Heart one too many times on the jukebox.

[Fireone]

Yup! There’s your first clue.

[old school]

I wonder what kind of meds this guy was given.

I know, for a time, the V.A. was good for giving you a handful of meds and shuffling you out the door!

[cherry]

I am tired of ptsd as an excuse for veterens...WW2 vets came home from war and went to school or work and started families..no time to wallow in self pity and they had just as much if not more horrific situations as present day vets.

[alternatives?]

Their commander in chief wasn’t Clinton, Bush, or Obama.

[Verginius Rufus]

I take it that the owner of the bar had seen him in the bar multiple times.

Maybe the best outcome at this point is if they find him dead by a self-inflicted gunshot, before he kills anyone else.

[ridesthemiles]

MANY, MANY OF THOSE WW II VETS CAME HOME & MARRIED THE WIDOWS OD THEIR TRENCH BUDDIES .

[old school]

If PTSD is not a factor why all the suicides every month or are those just made-up statistics?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Amy Vet?
Bar?

What could go wrong with that combo...
Sheesh....
SMH.

[Texas Eagle]

I gathered that but how could he possibly know who was there that the shooter knew? If I read the story right (which, I admit, it's possible I didn't) the guy who wasn't there said the shooter knew everybody who was there .

Granted, it was a small Montana town but I work in a sports bar in a smallish Northern Commiefornia town and I know most of our customers but I wouldn't go so far as to say that everybody knows everybody else.

[napscoordinator]

Many were alcoholics and beat their wives. They were not angels. They just were untreated.

[SaxxonWoods]

“I know, for a time, the V.A. was good for giving you a handful of meds and shuffling you out the door!”

I know on vet who is on a drug for depression. But he still says he’s depressed. Doesn’t seem to experience the next obvious thought about that.

[Billthedrill]

The term Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder hadn't been invented yet but the thing was real. The movie Best Years Of Our Lives addresses it closely enough for my WWII and Korea veteran father to say he never wanted to see it again.

[stanne]

And they did raise us baby boomers and look at us

[napscoordinator]

Yeah. The generation that brought drugs, sex, abortion, divorce into the mainstream. You are quite the generation. lol.