Most of us vets with PTSD are suicidal, not homicidal.
When the snipers were shooting it out around DC. They kept looking looking for one of us. I said right up front “We don’t travel in pairs” Folks were shocked when it was a pair of jihadi’s.
I don’t know if that is TMI or not.
Thanks for your service, and welcome home.
You’re absolutely right, we already have the stats. They’ve been there since our WWII, Korea and Vietnam troops got home. We’ve had no increase in Vets doing shooting spree’s.
Just kids who have no discipline at home or school. Liberals worried about little Johnnie’s psyhic.
The travesty of this (besides being treated as criminals/FELONS who lose their right to bear arms because they committed a crime against society) is that our men and women won’t go in for much needed help if they are “stuck”.
Already, it takes up to 30 years in some cases to get help for PTSD. Now this!
It’s a HUGE slap in the face for those who served this country with honor. Some giving limb, or an eye. Some just their minds.
Some, sometimes taking their lives because the help doesn’t come fast enough.
But when it’s compared to living in the big cities, the crime rates of Gangs, it’s NOTHING!
And many, most live their lives in peace, but in a private agony. Never becomeing the person they were before they left for war.
I just lost my cousin Danny. A gorgeous man. He could have been a model. The sweetest man you’d ever want to know. No gun involved. Alcohol...a lot of the men and women self medicate.
My brother has PTSD too. The men I’ve known, and we’ve talked to quite a few over the years, ...they wouldn’t hurt a flea... they just want to understand what’s wrong with them and how to become normal again.
And now, now we are going to say “You are so NOT NORMAL, that we cannot allow you to bear arms.”
It will be interesting when it passes. Because a TON of troops will not be able to bear arms and return to theatre, be it in Afghanistan or Iraq or elswhere. Even on the streets of the United STates!
The Liberal Congress is trying to destroy us from within...