{"id":28213,"date":"2012-01-06T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28213"},"modified":"2012-01-06T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T13:38:58","slug":"another-ptsd-fueled-shoot-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28213","title":{"rendered":"Another PTSD-fueled shoot-out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fox News<\/a> reports that a father is blaming his son’s PTSD which caused him to engage in a fire fight with police while the heavily-armed cops served a warrant related to drug charges in Ogden, Utah.<\/p>\n

Just like in the case of the veteran who the media said had extensive survival training and suffered from PTSD<\/a>, there are no doctor reports of PTSD, only family members who’ve somehow diagnosed the PTSD. His father also tells the media that he was “self-medicating” with marijuana. Isn’t it great that we’ve become a society jam-packed with medical professionals who can use the language to support their diagnosis, and all without a moment of any kind of training.<\/p>\n

And the media eats that shit up like ice cream. Alex Johnson, the reporter who first wrote about Barnes for MSNBC, walked back his faulty reportage<\/a> of that initial reportage. He explained “Barnes\u2019 behavior did fit a statistically significant pattern observed among soldiers returning from Iraq to Lewis-McChord, where PTSD has become an important issue.” What he really meant was that Barnes behavior fit his perception of how veterans behave. <\/p>\n

In case you didn’t know, the media aren’t medical professionals any more than those family members who blame their relatives’ bad behavior on their participation in war. All of these know-it-alls who watch Dr Phil are just like you and me – except they’re making excuses for the guilty. <\/p>\n

There are millions of veterans who suffer from PTSD…and every day, millions of us refrain from going on a shooting spree or self-medication with illicit products. Where’s the media on that story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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