Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“Two American-born citizens with military experience, one a veteran, the other a current soldier, committed public mayhem at the beginning of the new year: veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar in New Orleans and decorated Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger in Las Vegas — the former case being much more destructive and lethal. Both events raise troubling questions about what caused these individuals to act as they did (from what we know). The causes are likely complex. There may be, in each case, a cause that can be called the major one, but it is doubtful that we can ever isolate a single sine-qua-non cause. This is not how politics (the process by which people are governed on a day-to-day basis) typically approaches the issue.” (01/08/25)
https://www.econlib.org/politics-the-military-and-the-sagittarius-a-black-hole