Shoulda just gone to the AMC with a pocket flask.

They're saying she's a casualty of the War on Terror and specifically the Afghanistan War, even though it ended before she graduated high school.

Because the guy who shot her was trained up to be a commando by the US government, and probably went nuts because of what he saw and did.

One was Air National Guard, the other was Army National Guard. Sarah Beckstrom was in the 863rd Military Police CO, under the 111th Engineer Brigade.

These young troops have never seen war and likely never will. But we still as them to go to faraway places and endure the heat and cold. We ask them to work jobs with a 24/7 shift schedule. We ask them to miss holidays and birthdays. And we subject them to the risks inherent in military operations.

I'm a Reservist but I've worked with a lot of Guard Military Police over the years. Units from TX, MO, LA, CT, AL, NC, SC, and yes West Virginia.

Lots of dedicated young people, who signed up to serve their communities and pay for college and so forth.

I did Virginia to California a few times in college. 4 days, no CD player, no podcasts. Just AM and FM radio.

Very zen experience, but I wouldn't do it these days.

Based on the timeline his service would've stretched from Obama to Trump 1 to Biden.

It's too early to say he was radicalized. We don't know if there was any ideology behind the attack.

But the truth matters more than talking points.

And if the truth was that, there was no detectable reason to not give the shooter asylum and a visa, then that's what we should say.

He's in North Carolina running for office there.

The shooter chose to do this. They have moral agency.

Stop excusing the shooter, they are at fault here.

Hot take but I think the shooter deserves most of the responsibility for this.

They have vests with plates available. But that won't cover an entire body.

I dunno this makes sense to me.

Voters should get the policies they voted for. If they wanted the ACA protected, they could've voted Dem.

Ah geeze you can still see Nancy Mace's book in there. 😬

Chem was the biggest joke branch 15 years ago. It still has that reputation today.

Hopefully we never need it, of course.

I mean the fundamental reasons to observe Zapad 25 are 30 years old. We want to build trust and be certain this is actually an exercise and not an invasion.

Plus this thing has been planned for months and months.

That's a Vienna Document visit. It's due to OSCE.