The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มี.ค. 2024
- Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence and self harm.
Last fall, an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, before turning the gun on himself.
Dave Philipps, who covers military affairs for The Times, had already been investigating the idea that soldiers could be injured just by firing their own weapons. Analyzing the case of the gunman in Lewiston, Dave explains, could change our understanding of the effects of modern warfare on the human brain.
Guest: Dave Philipps (www.nytimes.com/by/dave-philipps) , who covers war, the military and veterans for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Profound damage was found in the Lewiston gunman’s brain (www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us...) , possibly from explosions.
• The finding has broad implications (www.nytimes.com/2024/03/08/us...) for treatment strategies in veterans and for criminal justice.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-t...) . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
Very interesting case study, devastating that the military hasnt implemented structer standards for blast exposures in training
That ending choked me up.
Another quality episode.
White matter damage in the brain is non-specific and can occur in lots of conditions (like untreated hypertension and other vascular diseases). Also, posttraumatic stress frequently occurs in the military even when people aren’t deployed… There is lots of abuse that happens in the military within in US. Traumatic experiences put people at risk for psychotic symptoms
Ok, so the reporter is making a connection with being exposed to multiple explosions, and being psychotic? How does explain the vast majority of military personnel in the past hundred years of war in the US?
What is the rate of psychosis of military personnel and then the psychosis rate in military personnel exposed to multiple explosions and then to psychosis in general public?
Maybe; just maybe, this does explain the armed forces.
A 77F?
This is an interesting story with one giant flaw.
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Robert Card shot himself in the head. More than likely pressing the weapon to his head, dumping a giant blast along with a giant lead object into his brain.
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Any and all findings are biased af. I want those men and women to get help but none of these findings will stand up to any real scrutiny.
It's too easy to get a gun.
And yet there is a negative correlation between gun control and crime rates.
Instead of hiding behind excuses, it would be preferable if pro-gun control admitted that they just want to take away the liberty of others.
@@dimitrioskantakouzinos8590So why in every other rich contries mass shooting and gun violence in general are much rarer than in the US, the only one with loose gun laws?
@@dimitrioskantakouzinos8590twist and warp statistics all you want, but the overall fact that lack of gun control causes unnecessary violent deaths on a massive scale doesn't change.
Also googled your statistics claim word for word and the top result said the opposite : "Examining violent crime, homicide, rape, robbery, and assault for 1,997 counties in the United States, the findings indicate that increased prevalence of firearms was associated with increased violent crime, homicide, rape, robbery, and assault."
This story is an example of why some people should not have access to guns, not only for the safety of those around him but also for their safety. If his access to guns was restricted, he may have not ended his life and may have got the help he so desperately needed. Serious Mental health issues and guns are a deadly mix.
@@m.a.b.4104Why didn't lack of gun control cause 'violent deaths on a massive scale' in the 1950s?
So noble of you to try to take people's rights away "for their own good". That is the same reason you want to take away people's right to free speech and to protect their children.
@@dimitrioskantakouzinos8590 1950's? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
America's mass shooting problem comes down solely to the availability of guns. Though interesting, everything else is a sideshow.
Absolutely correct. Japan has no guns and no shootings, unless you make your own gun. Abe was shot with a homemade gun.
@@82spidersa high tech gun made at home
We have gone from living from sun rise to sun set, living in a tribe, knowing who we physically interact with to, screen based click / swipe, like dislike society. No wonder many flip.
Our hubris will be our undoing.
"entropy" Google ? no time to analyse
Imagine your neurocircuitry is a tangled iPhone cable, and your hippocampus is an iPod Shuffle, and your prefrontal cortex is the brand new Apple VisionPro, and imagine Im a caricuture of intellectual superiority and there you have it
Mass media knows.... most people trust Anecdote over Statistics.
Because Storytime is much less scary than Math.
Conclusion: Ex Military should not have access to guns.
It’s propaganda. Robert Card blew his brains out. All damage to the brain could’ve easily been from that.
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I’m willing to bet he was on antidepressants and other mind altering medications.
The Ruling Class doesn't want the public to realize that this mass killing crisis is a uniquely American phenomenon that has clearly risen to the level of a National Emergency at this point. The Ruling Class doesn't want society connecting the dots between the Dickensian economy we've built (which routinely crashes to the ground every 7 years) and the clear, direct, and common sense outgrowth of civil violence that always inevitably manifests sequentially. The first mass shooting was right when Reaganomics first started- just 12 years into Reaganomics - we had the 1984 McDonald's Massacer. Ever since the middle class has disappeared entirely. Most Americans are now realizing that the social contract and so called "merit based system" their parents relied on DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE. And due to the resulting widespread indigence and lethal nature of the Austerity policies in place - there is nothing left but larger & larger systemic cracks for more and more Labor Scammed Americans to fall through. NOT to mention more than 6,000 mental health shortage areas across the US and priced out copay offerrings everywhere else. All combined with a gun first culture and no genuine way for merits to get you ahead; we now see the end result of economic policy induced civil unrest and the outgrowth of an ever increasing rate of Mass Casualty events - out of pure desperation - loss - and literally nothing left to lose. We now have TWELVE Mass casualty events a week. No other nation on earth has a mass shooting rate problem this bad. No other developed nation on planet earth even comes close to a systemic failure of this magnitude & profundity. YET STILL...half of all gun deaths are suicides - despite 12 mass shootings a week. Now THAT statistic really says it all. Despite 12 mass killings a week from guns - the majority of gun deaths are STILL suicides to escape the absolute nightmare hell that is modern American Capitalism. It's literally not survivable for anyone anymore. Ask yourself WHY the news only covers a handful of mass shootings a week and not the whole average 12??? It's because they know its their own status quo fueling all of this. It's because they know its their own arrangement of predatory unregulated Capitalism that's causing all this dysfunctionand civil rot. They want to reframe it all as "individual crisis incidents" instead. They want to blame "personal responsibility" exclusively instead - when it is so clearly a systemically intersectional issue.
You see, what they want to hide from you is that HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF. ITS ALL HAPPENING THE EXACT SAME WAY AGAIN! The Molly Maguire chapters, the Pullman Strikes, the Big Bill Haywood incident, the violent outcomes of the Homestead Strikes, the Colorado Labor Wars, the LA Times bombings, the Freedom Fighters from the "SECRET Minor's Society." YUP! Thats right! During the last decades of the 1800s - the street war between oppressed poverty workers, Labor Scammed Americans, and Capitalist salary police - manifested in ruthless and brutal gorilla warfare. AND YES! Back then all the violence was ALSO punctuated with dissaffected youths, politcally motivated poverty cases, alpha male hate groups, and racially motivated extemism. ALL these same exact societal substrates we are seeing now manifested just the same back then too. None of this is new at all. The ONLY difference (as far as I can tell) is the "unified banner." Its not happening under a unified banner like it did back then centuries ago - under an organized apparatus and unified banner of labor coalition. Instead, we've built a cruel immotive and indifferent society of individualism, self-isolation, smart phones, and economic competition - instead of worker solidarity and communal values. So we are instead seeing it happpen in isolated individual mass casualty events - events that will continue rising at an ever increasing rate until open Civil War begins. Its all exactly the same. A failed corrupt plutocracy State becoming the root cause of the civil unrest itself with the gavel in it's right hand - and sending their paid occupying force employees off to die confronting said outgrowth with the gavel in its left hand. I wonder if Police themselves will ever figure out their own employers own the very crisis bullets they as officers are underpaid to be throwing themselves in front of. I often wonder if police ever realize the same people who underpay them to risk their lives this way are jumping in front of crisis bullets caused by outgrowths owned by those very same greedy employers.
This is only going to get worse and worse. And our gaslit society (and the police themselves) will continue covering up the mirror reflection of it all - asking themselves "WHY" and charging head first into this kind of danger without even realizing the increasing rate is directly caused by socio-economic policies put in place by the same people they are enforcing the law for - and dying for - in the first place. And they will "rationalize away" and call these types of killings "sensless" and "random crazies" right up until the bitter end - never figuring out they are a (albeit unwitting) primary vehicle of the problem itself.
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You’re so well written for a communist.
Where you trained in a capitalist society?
@guineapigzed YES, I taught myself good oral and written communication skills DESPITE a Capitlaist Model foisting a new LETHAL THREAT to my life as a matter of annual routine. Despite the average reading & comprehension level of this Capitlaist society being LOWER JR HIGH - I manged to overcome all those odds and teach myself how to communicate very inconvenient truths effectively anyways. But that credit goes to ME! Otheriwse, the reading & writing comprehension average of American society wouldn't be lower Jr High lol
Hearing problems and paranoid schizophrenia go hand in hand
Can you cite any study on that?
@@dominique217 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36164770/