So, you go out in Las Vegas to buy beer. Why not take your assault rifle with ya?
That's what 20-year-old Matthew Sepi did. He ended up using it, too. He killed a woman and injured a man. He later said he "reacted in keeping with military training: engage targets and retreat," according to the AP story.
Sepi's mom said her boy has been trying to get help for PTSD ever since he's been discharged.
This story couldn't be more ironic in light of the Democrats' radio address last weekend, in which Sen. Daniel Inouye chided Senate Republicans for putting off work on a $491 billion defense bill to work instead on the NRA's gun manufacturer liability shield law.
Kind of on the nose, don't you think?
Anyway, I kind of reckon that when you send home some 40,000 troops who can't fight anymore because they've lost limbs and had their brains shook around in their heads, stuff like this is bound to happen. I've been saying for months that I didn't envy this country the debilitating aftereffects this war was bound to produce. Right now, in Lost Wages, there's a lady who is just as much a casualty as any poor sucker "over there" who died from taking shrapnel. And the most telling part of the story is Mrs. Sepi's comment that he was "trying to get help." Trying to get help? A team of counselors should be descending upon every one of these people the minute their Keds squish on American soil. They shouldn't have to "try" to get help. "Help" should be trying to get them.
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