The woman who did take the Major down reminded me a little of Tracy. No one who knew her was surprised at all that she acted as she did. Salud. She was shot but is expected to survive.

As far as the shooter, even his own cousin said he was terrified of being deployed, which he was about to be. The irony is that his specialty was post-traumatic stress. More like pre-traumatic stress in his own case.

If you are suggesting psychotropic drugs are bad, I'm not sure I agree with you. The word just means it acts on the mind. I am now taking two of them and they haven't given me any urges to go out and shoot places up. I take Celexa, an anti-depressant, and for the past few weeks Naltrexone, an alcohol urge inhibitor. They both seem to help and if anything make me more subdued than violent.

At the moment I am fighting the most prosaic of ailments, a cold or flu. I went to bed at 5 p.m. yesterday, hence being awake at 3:30 in the morning. I am going back to bed presently. Am scheduled to referee soccer from noon to 3:30, although I don't think that is going to happen.

>The Army Major was known to have objected to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and was trying to convert his patients to Islam, which caused many arguments with his patients and himself. He may have also been self-medicating with psychotropic drugs since he is a Psychiatrist. The red flags were everywhere and no one had the you know whats to stop this before it exploded into violence. Too late now.
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>It was also discovered that the shooter in Orlando, Florida, was on Pschyotropic drugs, which have been known to cause violent reactions.
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>If I had been there, and had a gun handy, I'd have taken that Major down. The availability of guns is not the problem. The guns didn't do the violence, but the moron who went loco. In the old days in Texas, if you messed with someone's cows, or property, it was perfectly acceptable to send some rock salt that person's way, usually in his behind. :)
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>>There are some things that make you wonder, though. Two mass shootings in two days. They might have happened if not for the easy availability of guns, but that isn't my point, either. There may be a screw loose somewhere in our national character.