Tragedy at Fort Hood: Will violence increase as more war weary veterans return?

[mrveggieman]

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publ...e_101350.shtml

[centrehice]

It's been called a Hell-Hole.

Of course more army people will snap. The overall attitude toward mental illness, or those that need help, are quantified as crazy, and those troops are taunted, teased, marginalized, & bullied.

Eventually people snap when treated this way. Until the US military stops acting like bullies, both at home and abroad, then that can be a starting point.

[gsj68]

as long as the keep jacking the people up with mind altering drugs this will keep happening

[pwaldo]

Doesn't Fort Hood have a lower suicide rate than the rest of the nation? Not saying that makes it good but there is a suicide problem in this country that nobody seems to want to talk about. More people kill themselves every year in this country than are murdered by guns. Both are real issues the country needs to address but one seems to get the majority of air time.

The military has a huge budget filled with waste that could easily be but cut with no real negative side effects but they act super stingy when it comes to helping vets. The terrorist attack on Fort Hood was labeled "workplace violence" so that the victims could be denied benefits to help them. Did we really need to shaft those people to save a couple million or whatever? Why was $1 billion in aid sent to Ukraine after this event if we couldn't pay for those victims? I'm all for helping people around the world but we shouldn't be stiffing people at home and giving away billions to other nations and then wondering why these people snap.