After that happens, I know some will still believe there point still has some merit.

From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.

The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)

Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real pissed me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.

The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.

I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.

This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.

In Killeen many years earlier in a Luby’s cafeteria the same thing happened many years ago when a gunman went in there and started firing. Suzana gratia hupp a sitting representive who was there with her parents (who were both killed) and was licensed to carry, laid the blame where it should have been not on the gunman, but the politicians who said it was illegal for her to carry HER gun into the restaurant. Same thing goes for Fort Hood!

Every government take over of their civilian population was prefaced by removing the ability of the civilians to defend themselves. Every act of violence was propogated by the victim to be unable to defend themselves. You are in essense in saying it is better to be defenseless in a violent altercation than to have a way to defend yourself.

Personally I think we should FINE all you people for NOT carrying a gun! I have to hire a policeman to protect you (and in fact will just be there to investigate your death from the crime because he was not there when the crime was comitted), when in fact YOU should have protected yourself!

Everyone… should 1) go to a gun safety training program, 2) buy or be given a gun and a gun safe in which to store them when not on their person, 3) free training time at gun ranges to make sure you are proficient, 4) make it illegal NOT to carry a weapon unless given a government “permit” not too.

Crime would then PLUMIT because there would not be anymore victims for the slaughter. Stop your whining about guns. It is a precious gift to have the RIGHT to carry a gun.