Weaver wrote:Of course I'm in "defence-mode" again - the allegations are the same, so my reaction is going to be the same.
No. Actually they are not.
If you read the posts there are a lot trying to, if not defend, then explain why this guy went bonkers.
I wouldn't call that "Accusations".
If you want to claim that military training makes it "easier" or more likely for someone to commit a mass murder - first come up with some stats to back up your claim.
Stats say that if you can't hit the long side of a barn from ten feet away you wont kill many people using firearms.
If you want to claim that it's the stressful environment - well, you're going to have to define this particular person's environment a whole lot better, given the relative number of people who go to war and don't commit mass murder.
If you want to claim it's a combination of these factors - again, come up with some facts.
Unfortunately, this time like so many others, all that we get is opinions, many of them completely uninformed.
Oh please Weaver.
It's freaking AFGHANISTAN.
They get shot on.
They don't know if they are going to be blown up by a RS-bomb.
They don't know if they have to duck for incoming while taking a shit.
I would call that stressful. Most (sane) people would.
As a matter of fact I can say that I am personally impressed that not MORE soldiers have lost it there.
Weaver wrote:Globe wrote:Weaver wrote:sandinista wrote:Not only the training and weapons, but the view of those being occupied as somehow non-human or sub human. This is what happens when you invade and occupy a country.
Which is why there aren't any mass murders conducted by civilians outside of war zones, right?
I am sure that if you compare the relative number of civilian mass murderers with the relative number of military mass murderers world wide, you will find that access and possibility will boost the latter to a higher relative number than the former.
Feel free to find some evidence to back up that assertion - personally, I seriously doubt you'll be able to, but it's your claim, so you can back it up with facts.
Am I happy that I wrote "World Wide".
The military trained militia leaders in Africa alone will tip the scales to show me right.
Edited for fucked up quoting and horrid spelling.