By Selwyn Duke
In every mass shooting’s wake, there are understandable complaints about mentally ill people acquiring guns. Yet the U.S. military is apparently putting guns in mentally ill people’s hands, as it’s now recruiting individuals “with a history of ‘self-mutilation,’ bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse,” as USA Today has written. The reason why concerns a problem that has only worsened since this report, too.
To wit: Armed forces enlistments have been plummeting, with Americans either unqualified or unwilling to join, write Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North (ret.) and David Goetsch in a recent Town Hall piece. Worse still, they lament, the situation isn’t being remedied because the powers-that-be won’t even acknowledge the problem.
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