Steve Benson by Steve Benson
- November 06, 2009
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1993, Steve Benson has been a lightning rod for more than 20 years as the staff editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson sums up his career best: "I don’t aim to please. I just aim."
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petergrt said, 1 day ago
Just another act of a ‘religious’ fanatic.
bleeep all religions, right?t?
JDG
said,
1 day ago
bleeep!
Jim said, 1 day ago
My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their loved ones .
Ken Warren said, 1 day ago
Terrible story, badly covered – MEDIA please just give us the basic facts, don’t speculate, don’t bring in “talking heads” that say “Well he could have been unhappy about something!”
Save 24/7 coverage for disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, things we need for emergency information.
fennec said, 1 day ago
^Ditto, Ken. I agree entirely.
dtroutma said, 1 day ago
This is a terribly sad story, and commentary. It will be twisted and turned, but I do have one critical question- How did this happen in the most heavily “armed” segment of our society. It was a private security guard who brought the guy down. It also appears the Army had already been warned of this PSYCHIATRIST’S INSTABILITY six months ago.
The military IS making changes to “past practices”, and things are improving, but it will still take time- this incident is still reflective of those “past practices”, and that should be kept in mind.
ahab
said,
1 day ago
Training warriors is not a painless or free pursuit. Freedom is not free as the saying goes. Guns do not protect the innocent. New Mexico’s newest murderer is a 10 year old who took a shotgun to his daddy’s head. He was mad. He had access.
big G 3469
said,
1 day ago
What’s scary was this nut was a ranked Major, a Army Psychologist & didn’t wanted to be shipped out to either Iraq nor Afghanistan.
dtroutma said, 1 day ago
Yes, odd that a field grade would pull this off. I wonder how scooter is dealing with the fact a female security officer brought him down. SHE HAD GUTS!!!
Our thanks to Kimberly Munley! Chicks CAN BE HEROS!
oldlegodad
said,
1 day ago
He was a Major (O-5) because he started as a Captain when commissioned as a doctor upon graduation from DOD med School.As A US born citizen he could buy his handguns off post legally. They were not GI Issue..
HUMPHRIES
said,
about 23 hours ago
Good post Ken Warren.
cabrobst said, about 19 hours ago
Just *&#bleep@^$ those religions that justify murder, including the murder of abortionists.
HOWGOZIT said, about 19 hours ago
Political correctness kept this dude in the service.
petergrt said, about 16 hours ago
“Just *&#bleep@^$ those religions that justify murder, including the murder of abortionists.”
Finally, a moral degenerate’s chime.
ahab
said,
about 11 hours ago
Petergrt, doesn’t like the ten commandments?
Corosive Frog said, about 10 hours ago
I’m more a supporter of the “PTSD by proxy” hypothesis; ie; The guy heard so many horror stories that he got incredibly traumatized by those, as if he had lived them.
It exists, I saw it. I know a girl who heard the stories about her sister being raped by her father for all of her childhood, along with the stories of her mom being sordidly abused by her godfather. Though she was born years after the events, she was traumatized by it and became violent against men.
Somebody can heal from his own wounds. What if you have to heal from other people’s?
It’s like some exttreme feminists, those who believe men are onthologically violent. Most of us don’t believe that and don’t understand how somebody can believe it. But if you worked in a woman’s shelter, and your job was to listen to horror stories like the gang rape we heard about eariler this week day after day after day, week after week for several years, you would have a biased and false image of men, too. All men are not violent, but you only hear about those who are, so you believe all men are violent.
oldlegodad
said,
about 8 hours ago
HOWGOZIT Amen. Backup here::
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=511702
parkersinthehouse said, about 8 hours ago
hey frog - thanks for the truth - i almost didn’t read any more posts because they were so toxic -
the man didn’t kill because he was muslim - he killed because he had witnessed the horrendous effects of ptsd in his patients and was afraid - his brother said terrified - of being deployed for that reason
he’s still a murderer. i do, however, hope that the truth of ptsd gets more administrative attention - walter reed and the va etc. are either way behind or criminally blind in terms of treating our returning wounded.
petergrt said, about 7 hours ago
“PTSD by proxy” causes one to exclaim “Allahu Akbar” and kill and maim as many as one possibly can.
Textbook PTSD!
motivemagus said, about 5 hours ago
petergrt, PTSD doesn’t mean you can’t shout Allah Akbar.
ahab
said,
about 3 hours ago
Oklahoma City went boom with an American made bomb least we forget.
Ronshua
said,
about 2 hours ago
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/wichman.asp?print=y