Unfortunately with this postal shooting we have yet another stereotype being reinforced.
The shooter kills six then herself. What the hell happened here? Why can't these shooters just turn the gun on themself first?
I guess there'll never be an answer for it.
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Not really, if anything she has broken the stereotypical mold, no where is it mention in the article that she is an ex Marine. And as a Jarhead, I resent the fact that she is moving in on our turf!
Hear! Hear! There are certain standards to be maintained, after all. Can't have a bunch of rank amateurs hornin' in on our action whenever they damned well feel like it.
I mean, just imagine all the confused newscasters when random, poorly trained civilians begin going on killing sprees. Utter chaos, I say. They won't know who to blame. Think of the journalists, won't you?
I'm not sure how to react. My first reaction is you both are sick, and my second reaction is you both are funny because there is truth in your point.
I guess we will always have an infinite supply of folks that are lined up to reinforce the take-this-job-and-shove-it/insanity stereotype.
Well of course we're sick and warped. You do understand that's one of the job requirements for Marine infantry, right? Without that sick sense of humor, your sanity would never survive weeks on end of hiking until your feet are a mass of blisters, sleeping in muddy snow wrapped in a piece of plasticized polyster, standing in chest-deep water in a foxhole in the jungle for days at a time, baking in the open desert, and half-starving on poor food for months at time--all for the privilege of getting shot at.
Little secret that everyone former Marine infantryman already knows, but very few civilians suspect: young men don't join and volunteer for combat duty in the Corps out of a sense of honor or citizenship or duty to country and family. They do it because they want to kill people. And they enjoy doing so. Any of them who tell you differently are lying to you and to themselves.
Oh, most Marines develop such a sense of duty to all those things as time progresses, but that is not their prime motiviating factor for joining, I assure you.
I realize that's not the popular view of the idealized soldier in modern America, but the brutality of war leaves no room for moral qualms or hesitation to kill. Borderline homicidal psychosis is, in fact, a requirement for a good fighter. You may find it abhorrent, unbelieveable, or even unacceptable, but it is nothing less than the truth. And that facet of every Marine's personality remains with them until the day of their death. The difference between people like Fundy or myself and people like Charles Whitman is that the vast majority of us manage to control those urges, become functional members of society, and not go on killing rampages.
Jaregghead, I agree with you once again. Although I cannot say I was in the military, I do have many relatives that were and share their views on many things, so as a civilian I am ignorant concerning many aspects of the military life. But I do know from these individuals that share their unique experience with me that our military men and women, our fighting forces are a necessary evil and we should thankful for what they provide.
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