Very weird case all around, Lopez was receiving treatment for depression from the sounds of it, but he wasn't considered violent or dangerous. He served in Iraq, but seemingly came back normal, however he did claim to be brain injured.
I heard on the radio yesterday that he saw little/no action while overseas. He was a truck driver I think.
Yes he was a truck driver, but he was still over there and remember Truck Drivers were driving convoys which was incredibly stressfull.
As for the PTSD, I don't think its overwork thats causing the issues I believe
1) When you have a 14 year war your deployed longer and more often especially if you choose to stay in the military. I know a few Canadian guys who did more then three trips to Afghanistan and that's hard on a person and hard on the family
2) These are different types of wars that we're fighting (That's changing again), but your not fighting a defined enemy, your fighting an undefined enemy that you might not think is a threat and two minutes later they're trying to blow your heads off. It was probably easier for me when I was training and other stuff because you knew pretty much who the enemy was.
3) While Canada did a great job and won over a lot of people in Afghanistan, you weren't there as liberators you were there as occupiers and you probably dealt with hatred and mistrust and all of that stuff, I imagine it was 100x worse for the average American Soldier in Iraq.
4) This one too me is the Vietnam factor. Deployed soldiers are incredibly young now, and maybe not mentally mature enough to deal with conflict. Its no secret that PTSD or Battle fatigue or shell shock cases dramatically increased in Vietnam. Now part of that came from it becoming an actual condition that was tracked and studied. But in WW2 and Korea you would have soldiers in their 20's and 30s making up the back bone of your non commissioned core. Now we're basically sending 18 year old kids right out of boot onto a plane or a ship going into a asymmetrical battlefield, and I'm convinced that even though you train them hard, that lack of mental maturity is a huge factor.
I don't think the work load is any harder, in fact I would argue that their work load is probably easier then it was in Vietnam or Korea or WW2 or even the first Desert Storm. Its certainly lighter weight and far more mobile and automated, on top of that there is way more sleep enforcement and on site monitoring of soldiers then there was back then.
“I looked to my left. I saw him standing there and the knife was on the ground. He dropped his knife. He had an assault rifle. He had bullets strapped to his chest like Rambo. I mean he looked like he was heading into war. "
He is dead from a self inflicted gunshot wound.
The NRA should go with "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is himself". Therefore, the logical conclusion is to arm more bad guys with guns.
On a side note, HS student takes guns to school, but no one gets shot. He hid an AK47 in the bathroom trash, an AK47.
I heard on the radio yesterday that he saw little/no action while overseas. He was a truck driver I think.
actually, from what I've heard from a US soldier, and being a truck driver isn't always a cushy job. terrorists are more likely to target transports than armed units, apparently
7 people dead, including the shooter, because the shooter couldn't get laid. I wish I was making that up but it's apparently true from a YouTube video he posted.
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Brown said the initial call came in to dispatch at 9:27 p.m. Friday night as multiple gunshots.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown revealed new details about Friday night's drive by shootings in Isla Vista during a Saturday morning news conference, including a new death toll and a possible link to an ominous YouTube video.
Deputies in the area found several victims and received information about the suspect and vehicle involved.
Witnesses described seeing a black BMW speeding through the streets, spraying bullets at people and various targets near El Embarcadero and Segovia Roads and the top of the loop along Del Playa.
Brown said at 9:33 p.m. the suspect exchanged gunfire with deputies then veered down Del Playa and crashed into a parked car. Deputies found the suspect inside the BMW dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Brown said he did not know if the suspect was shot and killed by deputies or if the wound was self-inflicted.
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Multiple witnesses say they saw two people inside the suspect's vehicle, however, during the press conference, Sheriff Brown would neither confirm nor deny whether there was a passenger in the car.
At this time, the sheriff is not releasing the suspect's name, although he has been identified.
Brown called the suspect "severely mentally disturbed" and said, "This was a premeditated mass murder."
Word on the street quickly spread about an ominous YouTube video posted by a young man who identified himself as Elliot Rodger, titled "Retribution." The nearly seven minute long rant blasts women who've ignored or rejected him over the past eight years and warns that he will "punish you all for it."
When questioned about the video during the news conference, Sheriff Brown indicated investigators were familiar with it and are looking into whether Roger was connected with the crime.
when their govt steals their rights they just drown their sorrows in a bucket of KFC and listen to prison planet or watch fox news, leaving the guns in the rack...
but when girls won't talk to them their righteous indignation leads them to take up arms
what a mess
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I don't how they can keep defending it, as a right.
Good news you're in Canada and you don't have to deal with it.
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Yeah it's great news, all we have to do is worry about the estimated 60,000 smuggled guns that come in from your wonderfull country each year.
on a serious not I wonder how many it is actually from the US or rather that came from drug cartels.
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No thankfully, but we can sit back and marvel at the stupidity going on there.
I can agree with you on this, I don't laugh at the idiots but just shocked by the amount of them
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