It was really good to see the Commander in Chief (that would be Obama) leave his fund raisers with Democrat fat cats, and fly immediately to Fort Hood to be with the troops. Oh..that didn’t happen? Oh my.
CASE NOT CLOSED.
there are many veterans who suffer from PTSD ..we must get them access to care and get them help.Unfortunately, often it does not come soon enough.
Get ready for another MSM round of “soldiers are unstable nutcases” stories.
If he was able to kill 3 and injure 14 then obviously and incredibly we still have military personnel walking around unarmed at Fort Hood and of course that will not be addressed. They will remain unarmed and the next guy with mental issues will shoot up the place because he will know nobody can shoot back. I mean think about this: This is ONE guy with a gun going against our MILITARY! Why the F aren’t they ARMED?
Is this the clothing equivalent of an "assault rifle"? What odd phraseology.
From a blurb.......
“The gunman, who served in Iraq for four months in 2011, had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems. Before the attack, he had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, Milley said.”
Could we have not gotten this guy some help? He MAY have had PTSD?? What is this guy doing on a base, in that sort of environment?
Obama obviously neglecting the troubled vets.
Is the “official” word still “Mental Health and PTSD”?
Or have other outlets confirmed he was a converted Mohammadan intent on following up with Nidal Hassan’s unfinished work?
I noticed that Rigamortis Shep Smith kept saying “it’s not terror”....
Why only 4 months? Is that a super short deployment cycle? Or maybe he was sent back early because of some problem?
According to the news the killer spent 4 months in Iraq in 2011. No time in Afghanistan. He was never wounded. Never in combat apparently. What trauma did he endure to stress about?
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No if he had any type of mental problem he had those problems before went on active duty.———————
I agreee but I wonder what kind of chemical treatment he had received in childhood for that catch all Attention Deficite Syndrome? Placed under stress but off the meds; how many mental switches does that short out?
Frankly, I’d think this pResident’s ROEs, the can’t shoot back policies, are the root of many problems with soldiers there in those places.
Refresh my memory - WHO was president in 2011?
Apparently one can buy a handgun that is not powerful. Who knew?
If he only served in Iraq for four months tells me he was sent back for a reason. I don’t believe four months is a normal deployment. Why did he come back so early?
I know it was many years ago, but in Korea you needed 36 points to come back. Front line units received 4 points a month. Away from the front line, the artillery zone received only 3 points per month, further back, behind the civilian line it was 2 points. I suspect a similar program is in effect today.
It’s probably been said, but it hasn’t been Bush’s War(s)® since 2008 when Obama held to the same policies.
I might blame Obama’s ROEs.
BUT - I remember That they said N. Hassan was a victim of PTSD when it happened. (Technically I think they called it Pre-PTSD or something weird.)
There was a push not long ago for veterans who were even thought to suffer from PTSD to have their weapons confiscated until they were signed off on NOT to be a threat.
Look for that push to reignite today because of this shooting.
The drugs prescribed for “depression” and stress disorders often have bad side effects and make the twenty something person worse.
They take them because that is all the help they can get and they know that something is wrong with their mental outlook.
Church and counseling is non-PC and too costly for the latter.
Combat vet?
FOX NEWS reported that although the killer had been in Iraq he had never been in combat.