Los Angeles Daily News
By Kelly Goff
POSTED: 12/21/13
Witnesses told media at the scene that he had been yelling loudly about “Hitler,” “Obama” and “terrorism.”The man arrested for killing one man and critically wounding a woman in a Reseda shooting is an Iraq war veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, police said Saturday.
Ricardo Javier Tapia, 32, was arrested on suspicion of murder Friday night after police say he opened fire at an apartment complex in the 7500 block of Canby Avenue.
“He suffers from PTSD as a result of multiple deployments to the Middle East,” said Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los Angeles Police Department.
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Ms. DiCesare,
ReplyDeleteYou of all people should know that PTSD does not, in and of itself, make one more prone to violence. Typically those who resort to violence, or are more prone to it, have also, along with their PTSD, suffered a psychotic break. Dementia, schizophrenia, and psychosis may accompany a diagnosis of PTSD, or develop as a result of, but it is not the PTSD itself that tends to make people violent. By publishing this you lend credence to the misdiagnosis of PTSD as a cause-and-effect relationship for what is likely the actions of a psychopath. The uneducated masses, such as Officer Norma Eisenmann, and particularly law enforcement and judicial officers in general, take it upon themselves, often against medical opinion, to use PTSD as the cause or basis for a veterans' actions, as if PTSD alone makes us dangerous or more violent. Frequently, the opposite rings true and a veteran with PTSD abhors violence, having seen first hand (or by our own hand) the true nature of violence.
Brian Conner
You are correct. They are more likely to kill themselves than harm anyone else. The number of attempted and completed suicides proves that.
ReplyDeleteOver 22 million veterans in this country, millions with PTSD yet these crimes are very, very rare.