Veterans and Violence: Chicken or Egg?

Image Source: CCTV footage of the truck explosion – Public Domain

“I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost,”  Master Sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger (US Army) allegedly wrote in an explanatory note on his phone before shooting himself inside a Tesla Cybertruck packed with fireworks and gas tanks set to detonate outside a Las Vegas casino, “and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.”

I say “allegedly” because, as is often the case, we’re only getting details...