- Messages
- 153
- Reactions
- 175
So I just read the article, and the follow-up. Not in a very long time have I read something so ridiculously absurd. If he wants to restrict firearms because a few people are abusing the 2nd amendment, then maybe we should consider restricting freedom of the press, because this article was definitely an abuse of the 1st amendment. The writer is entitled to his own opinion, but printing opinion is different from printing lies.
And what really really really inflamed me about this article was that he dared to compare his coming down from adrenaline as PTSD. Way to invalidate true sufferers of PTSD. He could have stated he suffered temporary post traumatic stress (PTS) and I would have been fine with that, but to say he had a DISORDER for an hour?! PTSD happens when PTS remains for several months and takes years to overcome if at all! Saying he had temporary PTSD from firing an AR would be like somebody saying they temporarily felt just like a rape victim after finding their car had been prowled, or that after they got rear ended, they temporarily felt just like somebody who's child had been eaten by an alligator in front of their eyes and is gone forever.
I guess journalists don't have to research anything any more. After all, it isn't about the truth so much as it is about the paycheck.
It is sickening, purely sickening.
And what really really really inflamed me about this article was that he dared to compare his coming down from adrenaline as PTSD. Way to invalidate true sufferers of PTSD. He could have stated he suffered temporary post traumatic stress (PTS) and I would have been fine with that, but to say he had a DISORDER for an hour?! PTSD happens when PTS remains for several months and takes years to overcome if at all! Saying he had temporary PTSD from firing an AR would be like somebody saying they temporarily felt just like a rape victim after finding their car had been prowled, or that after they got rear ended, they temporarily felt just like somebody who's child had been eaten by an alligator in front of their eyes and is gone forever.
I guess journalists don't have to research anything any more. After all, it isn't about the truth so much as it is about the paycheck.
It is sickening, purely sickening.