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U.S Military Plans to Prevent Veteran Suicides by Taking Away Their Guns
Activist Post
by J.G. Vibes It has long been known that there are more veterans who end up committing suicide than there are who actually die on the battlefield. This fact has been so unsettling for many people in the mainstream because it exposes the true nature of what war is all about. When the people on the front lines are so depressed about what they have seen and what they have been forced to do, it opens up a whole list of questions that people in the US have been running from for over a decade. As of last month, 270 active-duty service members killed themselves this year alone, and half were from the Army. Instead of targeting the underlying psychological issues and traumatic memories that are pushing veterans towards suicide, the establishment has been putting forward false solutions that just cover up the symptoms, instead of addressing the causal factors behind the depression. As suicides continue to rise in 2012, the Defense Department officials are developing a suicide prevention campaign, part of which will encourage soldiers to give up their weapons. Under current legislation when troops are identified as high risk, commanders have the authority to confiscate their service weapons, but they can not ask them to hand over their personal firearms. These new policies that have been suggested by Congress and the Pentagon are hoping to change that, giving commanders and law enforcement the ability to confiscate their personal arms. This is by far the most offensive and alarming attempt by the US government to lower veteran suicides, but it is not the first time that they have put forward a solution to this problem which misses the point entirely. Earlier this year the US Army awarded a scientist at the Indiana University School of Medicine $3 million to develop a nasal spray that eclipses suicidal thoughts. The underlying problem here, the bottom line, is that human beings are not cut out for the kind of carnage that plays out on the battlefield. Despite the cultural mythology surrounding human nature, and the dark history of subjugation that has plagued humanity for centuries, violence has a very traumatic impact on the human consciousness. The human nature debate is something that I cover frequently in my work; I even released an article last week reporting on recent scientific studieswhich added more evidence to back up the argument for a peaceful human nature. In my hardback book Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance I give a more in-depth description of how post traumatic stress disorder is an indication that human beings are not built for lives of violence. In chapter 12, “Inhuman Nature” I discuss how:
Veteran suicide is a serious problem, that certainly deserves a great deal of attention. However, these solutions that have been put forward by the establishment are nothing more than band-aids that overlook the causal factors behind the depression. These people are suffering through a very traumatic time in their life, where they need to work through their issues and face their demons head on before coming to terms with what they have experienced. To cover up these issues and act like these veterans have no good reason to be depressed is to bury them even deeper in their trauma and increase their risk of depression and suicide. J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio. He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com. Delivered by The Daily Sheeple Contributed by Activist Post of Activist Post. Please share: Spread the word to sheeple far and wide
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As the founding fathers did, so should we. We shoot and kill those that attempt to disarm us, period,
Are most of the suicides done with guns? I was under the (probably wrong) impression it was massive amounts of pills. Either way, deeply unsettling.
Yet another brilliant idea from the poopagain. They haven’t had a total FU since they sent 6,000 of our guys ashore in ‘Nam with NO ammo and a division of VC waiting for them WITH ammo. Wouldn’t want any of our guys to shoot any of their buddies while debarking, now, would we?
The SOB who ordered that was brought back to the poopagain and given a 3rd star. I thought that he should have faced a firing squad made up of some of the guys who escaped the cluster-f*** that he ordered. Oh, well. He’s probably dead now but I hope that ol’ Satan has a VERY special place for him to reside in Hell.
Bambam, This 2010 study http://www2.med.umich.edu/prmc/media/newsroom/details.cfm?ID=1640 seems to say that yes, guns are preferred 70%.
But the antigun bias in the study is clear. How can a gun be termed a violent method and pills, which often cause convulsions and slow poisoning, non-violent? To me it is just distracting and off-topic, as if some study had concluded proudly and loudly that rope is the preferred method of hanging oneself — over neckties or dog leashes.
When discussing suicide, despair and death are the enemy not any particular method of suicide.
The idea that an organized campaign is fronting the idea that people can be ‘discouraged’ from suicide by surrendering personal weapons — AS IF that somehow directly addresses the problem — is misleading and, ultimately insulting and dangerous to liberty.
It may be that for some who are wrestling with thoughts of suicide, the surrendering of their service revolver could become a ritual affirmation to survive, a path to healing. But you cannot impose that idea on anyone.
Having the means for suicide in front of you as you make the choice not to do it, that is the real personal victory. All else is bad theater or shoddy scientific method.
But is sure seems as if the take-away-the-guns people are scouring the landscape asking, what defenseless demographic shall we take away the guns from… today?
What we’re dealing with here is a generation of people who would see the de-clawing of cats as some general utopian prevention of violence. When in fact it is a direct form of violence, to the cat.