Medic Iraq Vet Kills Wife Using a "Failure Drill".

OMG... This is so fucking sad....

http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051225/NEWS06/51225021

<snip>

During an interview with Detective Jeff Donaca, Supanchick said he believed his wife had sent e-mail messages and photos of herself to other men over the Internet.

Supanchick said he had planned to offer his wife $1,000 to leave him and their daughter alone. He said he armed himself to ensure that his wife “would be quiet and talk to him,” the affidavit says.

After talking to his wife for four hours, he said, he heard the police at the door. According to the affidavit, that’s when he decided to perform a “failure drill,” a military tactic of firing two rounds into the body and one round into the head.

Tyke Supanchick was a medic with the Navy and was in Iraq earlier this year. Kelly Supanchick and their baby moved to Eugene from North Carolina in April to be closer to her husband’s family in Junction City. The couple married in Oregon in 2003

Fortunately, I survived. I'm very sorry she didn't. Her husband never intended for her to be given a chance to survive.

Once again a woman pays for America's failed gun policies.

Notice this guy seems to have used his gun after the police came. She probably would have had a better chance of living if he was armed with something else

IF the military had provided with PROPER Mental Health services before releasing that soldier from a war zone, this wouldn't have happened. With strict gun control policies he could have killed her "slitting her throat" just the way he treated her before.

...are both miserable failures.

NGU.

There are too many guns in this society. There's no way the government could control them. This man needed proper mental health care and support when he got home. Folks will always be able to get guns in this country. That's just the way it is.

I basically agree, but the neocons keep getting away with more than I would have guessed, and the sheeple take it.

The big problem is the states that sell guns with almost no oversight. Canada and Mexico complain about how easy it is for crooks to get guns in the US.
Another problem is that Republican's won't enforce federal gun laws, they want government to fail. Like almost all goverment actions under the RepuKKKes, they want gun regs to fail so their corporate crones can sell more guns.

describe our military as "broken."

There's one of these kinds of stories every couple of weeks or so now.

Heartbreaking!

Anybody wanna bet that Dear Leader will never hear about this?

Danged librul meeja!

and they want to do fucking Iran now??

There is no way we can have any sort of incursion there and leave Iraq at our back. It would be the dumbest American military move since General Longstreet drug his heels getting into position at Gettysburg.

The Dear Leader Administration is forced to consider that any attack on Iran cannot be supported by "boots on the ground."

Remember when Phlush Phlegmball and the rest of the Repiglicans chastised the Clinton Administration's use of cruise missiles against Al Qaeda? That's where they live now. Nothin' but missiles and airstrikes.

... as more troops come home, and start having career and family troubles. It's hard to move from a milieu where violence was the solution to every problem to a more civilized one.

Remember the Simpson's episode when Homer is at the gun store and is complaining about the 3 day waiting period. Homer says, "but I want to use the gun right now".

Not to worry, I'm sure the "culture of life" will raise the kids.

This man was obviously unstable and had no business having a gun.

and many of those poor men and women are still scarred, traumatized & freaked-out. The exodus of mentally (& physically) scarred vets from Iraq and their return/re-patriation back home has just begun. There will be more tragic, awful stories like this. It's just begun.

I guess the exclusively rightwing virtue of "supporting our troops" we always hear so much about (and which we progressives are accused of not doing) doesn't include decent mental health care when our vets come home freaked-out & violent.

a. If we hadn't gone to Iraq to, well whatever the hell the excuse is this week!
b. If they had given this man some kind of PTSD debriefing, counseling.


Well, I don't know, it is just sad, and terrible. It is also the kind of shit that happens every day in America, and not just unique to the military.

and I live here. I haven't seen any news on this at all.