Fort Hood Shooting
 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/02/us/fort-hood-shooting/

Damn second time in 5 years..... prays go out to the families.

Yep I heard about this yesterday. So sad that this had to happen. My thoughts go out to all of those affected.

I live veeery close to FH. Like 15 mins away. Pretty scary. Today there was also a pipe bomb placed under some guy's truck.That was also close to our place. I don't think anyone was injured. The bomb was disarmed, as far as I know. I've heard that when one person decides to go off the deep end, usually a few more choose to follow. It was something we studied in Psychology related to public shootings and the like.

As for the shooting yesterday, glad the guy didn't make it off post to cause more grief. From what's been reported, he'd done enough before he decided to take his own life. I keep thinking of the people who lost family members or close friends since I often do the empathy thing.

From what they've been saying on the local news, the shooter himself seems to have had a few deaths in his family recently. That's certainly no excuse to justify what he chose to do at all. I'm even more repulsed by his course of action. I still can't fathom why someone would resort to taking the lives of others due to loss of loved ones. You'd think one would choose to draw closer to the people they've got left, but I don't presume to know the guy's mind. Just one of those events that leave me shaking my head and wishing there really were four teenage mutant ninja turtles in existence.

Ditto. This has been all over our local news here, and I'm not too far from you, BT. I just don't understand why anyone would do something like that. Or maybe I do. There are days when I really want to exterminate about half the human race just because they are being idiotic douches- and all ending up in my drive-through, somehow. But I'd never go that far.

These are people who have serious mental issues to begin with, more often than not. PTSD is no excuse.

Well, from what I heard, he'd been in combat and had depression and anxiety issues and was in the process of being diagnosed with PTSD. No, it's not a good excuse to kill people, but it can send people off of the deep end. I think if they'd sped up the process, maybe this wouldn't have happened at all. At first when I heard about this, I thought maybe it was just two guys having a dispute, but I now know it's more than that.

My fiancé was saying that no one really takes mental illness seriously. People are just now beginning to sit up and take notice of PTSD and it's effects from what I've been reading. Yeah, seems like the evaluation process is rather slow at present. I wonder how thorough they are and if they're in the process of being redesigned or what. I'd hope that they'd be mandatory after any soldier has to see so much carnage on a daily basis. Maybe some of them try to ignore what they've seen or had to do, but I'm betting that makes things worse.

Yeah Duckie, certainly no excuse for such vile acts. I wonder just how many of our soldiers are actually recognized after having to go through so much when they get back. I honestly have no idea how it all goes down because I have no family members in the military. Sometimes, I feel like they're the ones who should be recognized as celebs because of all they've had to sacrifice. I've read some accounts of men and women returning home only to find that a spouse wants to call it quits, and all that. On top of PTSD, they've probably got to deal with a tun of other problems. Still, it's difficult for me to understand why that would warrant random acts of cruelty upon those who've done nothing to deserve them. Yeah I know what you mean. People piss me off at times, but I wouldn't even dream of going off the deep end. Life can be a hell of a thing to happen to a person, but blaming one's troubles on strangers is a cowards way of finding tranquility. Tranquility? More like a misery and depravity swirl milkshake.