No, although that won't stop the guy's lawyer from throwing it our there to muddy the water. Sadly that means the crazed war vet story will continue and gain traction. That is a sorry state of affairs. Jonn Lilyea swings a mighty clue bat at this over at the farm team. Yeah, “hundreds of thousands of GIs” who haven’t killed even one civilian, beat their wives, rammed their car into a bridge, pulled the trigger on themselves [insert your own attempt at violence that you haven't committed]. “Unique to SSG Bales” is an understatement. I’m not going to speculate on what caused Bales to go downtown and blast away at innocents, but I do know that there are many people on this blog who suffer from PTSD and there’s not one who I wouldn’t welcome into my house without bothering to lock up my gun safe. I’d like to think this blog is part of their self medication, I know it’s part of mine. That’s why I don’t try to restrain discussion here. This guy had some sort of mental deficiency that allowed him to think killing children was OK. Whatever that is, it is not PTSD and calling it that is a disservice to all of those honorable troops who, as Jonn noted, don't slaughter innocents.
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