LordRaven wrote:Okay, so it would appear you want to deflect from those, both invited in and born and bred here, who carry out murderous attacks against civilians with blades bombs bullets and vehicles.Cannydc wrote:LordRaven wrote:Cannydc wrote:Roc, you are acting like you are one of the statistics above,
Revisit my OP - in it I made the point that the battle areas of Iraq and Afghanistan were always likely to cause mental health casualties, service and civilian.
It was argued that our servicemen are not violent. I have shown that actually, they are, lots of them.
Canny, you have known of me for years and yet you have now started calling me Roc? Roc used to post on Sol when we were both there --so you are Wrong!!!
And trying to tar ex squaddies with the same brush as Islamic Jihadi knife/gun wielding, vehicular mass murdering and bombers/cold blooded murderers of little kids watching their teenybopper popstars is...
... well it is beyond the pale.
You have been asked to provide links to support your idiotic assertions and you have failed, so please desist this attack on our service personnel ---you were one yourself after all.
Sorry, I had you down for multiple personality disorder.
This is not an attack on service personnel - I was one, as you well know. It was stating the facts (as linked clearly) that service personnel commit violent crimes in civvy street due to mental illness. Denial isn't an option - it's a fact.
Fine, but why do you choose to deflect instead of discussing such incidents and what the probable causes are?
It wasn't a deflection - it was a direct reply to the OP, which queried whether a young Afghan who went beserk with a knife could possibly be mentally ill.
It is you who is attempting to conflate this with home grown terrorism.