Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (366705)	1/17/2008 2:52:59 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571405

Mr. Sepi did not like to venture outside too late. But, plagued by nightmares about an Iraqi civilian killed by his unit, he often needed alcohol to fall asleep. And so it was that night, when, seized by a gut feeling of lurking danger, he slid a trench coat over his slight frame — and tucked an assault rifle inside it. “Matthew knew he shouldn’t be taking his AK-47 to the 7-Eleven,” Detective Laura Andersen said, “but he was scared to death in that neighborhood, he was military trained and, in his mind, he needed the weapon to protect himself.” What's scary for me...not only does what he did make perfectly good sense to me but that I can feel what he was 'feeling' when he decided to put the AK-47 under his coat. The guy was suffering from PTSD which is prompted in part by the fight or flight syndrome. Even when the part of his brain that remained logical tried to argue with him that it doesn't make sense taking a gun to go to a store in the US, the paranoia caused by f or f told him otherwise. F or F is such a powerful physiological impulse that its self protective prompting is really hard to countermand. This particular 7-Eleven sits in the shadow of the Stratosphere casino-hotel in a section of town called the Naked City. By day, the area, littered with malt liquor cans, looks depressed but not menacing. By night, it becomes, in the words of a local homicide detective, “like Falluja.” How bad is it that a part of an American city reminds one of Falluja.