What could possibly have motivated an army shrink to go on a rampage like that? Post-traumatic stress, perhaps? Nope - the 39-year-old Doctor has never served in a war zone; his job consisted of "counselling" soldiers who (unlike him) actually had served in war, and who returned with stress-related disorders. According to news accounts, the shrink was about to be deployed and dreaded the thought of experiencing the horrors of war first-hand. He had, after all, experienced the horrors of war through accounts gleaned from the stories returning soldiers had confided to him.
The shrink's experience, then, was entirely second-hand - and even had he been deployed, he wouldn't have been slated for actual front-line duty. If he was suffering from post-traumatic stress, then, it was by virtue of his continued exposure to front-line soldiers in the course of his "counselling" sessions. It seems a bit of a stretch to consider this as the underlying cause of his grisly rampage, although I must admit to bias in this regard: when I was in college, I wasted a portion of time in pursuit of a psych major. My interactions with professors and fellow students ultimately resulted in the conclusion that the reason people gravitate to the field is largely due to their own imbalance, which caused me to drop that pursuit like a hot potato and move instead to the harder science of biology.
In other words, people who pursue psych majors tend to be nuts.
This guy had a doctorate. That tells me that he's really twisted.
There are, however, plenty of twisted shrinks running around who don't load up and start blowing people away. Even the combination of being twisted and exposed to second-hand stress doesn't really explain it. Ah, but recent reports, some of which emanate from survivors of the attack, add a key element: the shrink was also an adherent to the Religion of Peace™. And according to survivors, he was yelling "Allahu Akbar" as he began firing away.
I realize that Political Correctness dictates tolerance and non-judgementalism. But I've never subscribed to that religion, either. The facts seem rather clear: in virtually every such event that occurs anywhere on the planet today, one commonality exists: Islam.
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