To: Zhang Fei
As the daughter of a lifer who served in Viet Nam I have known my share of combat vets in my life. I have never known one to kill anyone, and frankly all seemed like normal well adjusted individuals. I suspect that if you look at stats combat vets are no more likely to kill someone than the public at large.
susie
34 posted on
03/09/2008 5:02:39 PM PDT by
brytlea
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To: brytlea
I suspect that if you look at stats combat vets are no more likely to kill someone than the public at large. I wish I could recall the thread, but somebody here on FR did that calculation a few weeks ago and found the rate for vets is much lower than the general population.
37 posted on
03/09/2008 5:13:29 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: brytlea
The ny slimes tried to slander our Troops with this lie a few months ago. Statistics show that Vets who serve are much less likely to commit murder.
49 posted on
03/09/2008 6:02:50 PM PDT by
Eagles6
To: brytlea
“I suspect that if you look at stats combat vets are no more likely to kill someone than the public at large.”
Responding to the NY Slimes, Fox had a study on this several weeks ago. The Slimes played up numbers; Fox did an honest comparison and Vets were 80% LESS likely to commit violence vs. the same age avg population, IIRC.
67 posted on
03/09/2008 9:06:10 PM PDT by
Rembrandt
(We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
To: brytlea
That’s pretty much the case, and probably less likely.
You should take a look at Stolen Valor - How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History.
http://www.stolenvalor.com/
69 posted on
03/10/2008 5:42:00 AM PDT by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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