Denied a leave pass, Lopez decides he will settle the issue with the aid of a gun. Most certainly a very insensitive approach to a personnel issue..Lopez was a soldier at Fort Hood, a sprawling military base where men are stripped of sensitivity and taught to kill dispassionately, and if you wear the uniform you are hailed a hero. If you do a really good job of killing, you will be awarded medals. If the killing and violence upsets your psyche, you will be treated for mental illness. .Fort Hood, one of around 1000 U.S. military bases and installations around the world for the main purpose of asserting U.S. power and influence on weaker peoples and nations. Where one of the main tools of the trade is the gun, and the deadlier the better..Then there is puzzlement when one of their own attempts to resolve a personal issue with a gun. Perhaps mental illness and/or intellectual issues are at the root. But perhaps they are looking in the wrong place.
Denied a leave pass, Lopez decides he will settle the issue with the aid of a gun. Most certainly a very insensitive approach to a personnel issue..Lopez was a soldier at Fort Hood, a sprawling military base where men are stripped of sensitivity and taught to kill dispassionately, and if you wear the uniform you are hailed a hero. If you do a really good job of killing, you will be awarded medals. If the killing and violence upsets your psyche, you will be treated for mental illness. .Fort Hood, one of around 1000 U.S. military bases and installations around the world for the main purpose of asserting U.S. power and influence on weaker peoples and nations. Where one of the main tools of the trade is the gun, and the deadlier the better..Then there is puzzlement when one of their own attempts to resolve a personal issue with a gun. Perhaps mental illness and/or intellectual issues are at the root. But perhaps they are looking in the wrong place.