The suspect had arrived at Fort Hood in February from another base in Texas. He was taking medication, and there were reports that he had complained after returning from Iraq about suffering a traumatic brain injury, Milley said. The commander did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
An FBI official told Fox News there no initial indication that the gunman was motivated by any religiously-fueled ideology. “But it is still early in the investigation and we are not ruling anything out,” the official said.<\/p>\n
Late Wednesday, investigators had already started looking into whether the gunman’s combat experience caused lingering psychological trauma. Among the possibilities they planned to explore was whether a fight or argument on base triggered the shooting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Lopez was a truckdriver, so while I’ll buy into the TBI theory, the PTS not so much. The media is reporting that Lopez bought the Smith & Wesson .45 recently, and since the military doctors hadn’t diagnosed him yet, that seems reasonable. I’m sure that he hadn’t shown any predisposition to violence, so there was no reason to alert the FBI to put him on the NICS system.<\/p>\n
But, the media has arrived at their preconceived notion that it was PTS that made him kill people, so case closed, but like I said, how do they explain the fact that everyday, thousands of veterans with PTS haven’t murdered anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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