Lakeland, Florida Shooting

[mikexmoran]

https://www.theledger.com/story/new...440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

https://apnews.com/article/shootings-florida-937c5e0aab32c55f4f330b78cbf8a70b

“They begged for their lives, but I shot them anyway.”

The account said he surrendered after he was injured.

A veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. Combine that with meth and nobody wins.

 

[gmase]

I hate to say it, but we don’t need to look much further than Florida to see evidence of similar senseless violence. A veteran of these wars who used meth, killed a number of innocent people.

Now that we are not dumping cash in Afghanistan, we can divert it to help the veterans.

Time to support the troops by not putting them in harm’s way for no good purpose. Or longer than the purpose requires.

Robert McNamara’s mea culpa on Vietnam has been largely forgotten. While orchestrating the war, he concluded it was futile and it was ‘wrong, terribly wrong’.