BluesStringer
Les Brers
Every human is repulsed by death? Explain serial killers, gang members, and Hitler then. I don't agree with that at all. If you've ever been in combat before you'd know the feeling. Some people maybe unsure about killing at first, but the second they start shooting at you and you realize they're trying to kill you, any and all remorse for them disappears. The only thought going through your head is "Fcking kill them all."
Lord, if such a thought should ever enter my mind, please forgive me. And should I ever have to shoot somebody in defense of self or others, please imbue me with the wisdom not to post such braggadocios, tough-guy blather on the internet, but short of that gift of wisdom, please lead all those investigating the shooting away from wherever I posted said blather. Amen.
I take it you've never seen your best friend's legs get blown off by an IED or get shot in the face by a sniper.
Nope, sure haven't. If you have, you have my sincere sympathies, but my prayer for my own wisdom in the types of things I post on the web still stands.
A home invasion is different and that same thought would not necessarily be going through my head but I won't deny that combat changes you.
If it changes you to think that you should "kill them all" of those who share some racial, religious or ideological trait with a civilian attacker (as in a home invasion), then you are exactly the kind of person that the mental health provisions of revisions of NICS back in '07 were meant to disarm. Considering that Der Fuhrer Bush signed those revisions into law, it makes the post I'm replying to right now even dumber than the one I replied to before, because it identifies you publicly, and in your own words, as someone whose post-war reactions to combat have put you squarely in that law's sights.
For the record, I fought as hard as I could to defeat that law on behalf of veterans just like you. At the time though, I sincerely believed that any threats to the safety of innocents by veteran gun-owners was so exaggerated as to be statistically insignificant. If you consider the thoughts you just expressed as being typical of returning combat vets though, I may have been mistaken.
The statement that every human is repulsed by death it just flat out wrong.
I agree wholeheartedly. Was that not evident in my reply?
Tough-guy blather? You've clearly not spent much time around deployed Marines.
And I can't tell you how bad your tough-guy blather is making me want to.
Blues