Navy Yard gunman began by shooting people he worked with, investigators and witnesses say

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4. This info helps in confirmation of "cause", not exoneration of anybody.

I don't know what you mean by "a powder keg of PTSD cases created by two decade long wars just waiting to go off". Do you think vets of recent wars are like firecrackers, having no volition but are just waiting for something, anything to come by to light their fuses? That doesn't seem very respectful.

I come from a "frontier" type town in the Canadian outback, born there, where recruits from southern suburbia came to make big bucks by doing hard work, then stayed to build their little fiefdoms - many of which might blow a southerner away. A weird way of comparing such towns was in "bars per person" multiplied by "notoriety of the bar". There were always the assholes who'd return with a baseball bat after being tossed. This wasn't considered a PTSD quotient, that's for sure. Incidents like that were understood along an "asshole quotient" graphic curve, and everybody knew that such an "asshole quotient" graphic curve existed.

People kind of like, made their way on it.