Thursday yet another mass shooting was committed by a military veteran, this one in Milwaukee. Virtually all military veterans are not mass shooters. Many peace activists are veterans. Many everything under the sun are veterans. But mass shooters are very disproportionately military veterans.
Some mass shooters who are not veterans are acting out a pretense of being in the military and/or are using military weapons. Militarism impacts a society in many ways. But one of them is through the violence of veterans, people who have been trained and conditioned to engage in violence but not always guided successfully into nonviolent post-military life.
Among males aged 18-59 in the United States, 15% are veterans.
Among male mass-shooters aged 18-59 in the United States, 36% are veterans.
A mass shooter is well over twice as likely to be a veteran.
Were this statistic…
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