https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/any-connection-2/

With soldiers and former soldiers committing suicide at an average rate of 22 per day, and with many local police departments giving hiring preferences to such veterans of combat, why has a possible connection not been drawn between these factors in evaluating police shootings of unarmed people? War is such a dehumanizing, insane institution that so many participants are unable to survive the dark side forces that eat away at people’s souls. If so many former soldiers are prepared to kill themselves to end their psychic pain, why should we be surprised to see them – in their role as police officers – being willing to kill others?

12:16 pm on April 9, 2015

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