Lab results show Robert Card
Lab results show Robert Card
Robert Russell Card II
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 19:49:04 +0100 (CET), D <J@M> wrote:
Lab results show Robert Card
Robert Russell Card II
The gunman, Robert Card, was a grenade instructor in the Army Reserve.
In 2023, after eight years of being exposed to thousands of
skull-shaking blasts on the training range, he began hearing voices
and was stalked by paranoid delusions, his family said. He grew
increasingly erratic and violent in the months before the October
rampage in Lewiston, in which he killed 18 people and then himself.
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His brain was sent to a Boston University's C.T.E. Center, a
laboratory known for its pioneering work documenting chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., in athletes.
According to the lab's report, prepared on Feb. 26 and updated on
Wednesday, the white matter that forms the wiring deep in the brain
had "moderately severe" damage, and in some areas was missing
entirely. The delicate tissue sheaths that insulate each biological
circuit lay in "disorganized clumps," and throughout Mr. Card's brain
there was scarring and inflammation suggesting repeated trauma.
This was not C.T.E., the report said. It was a characteristic pattern
of damage that has been found before in military veterans who were
repeatedly exposed to weapons blasts during their service.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/maine-shooting-brain-injury.html
In some countries in europe, elderly have to go through medical checkups
to determine if they are fit to drive, and if they don't pass, they lose >their drivers license.
Should registered gun owners have to do annual medical check ups? Would
that stop cases like the above?
On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:26:33 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
In some countries in europe, elderly have to go through medical checkups
to determine if they are fit to drive, and if they don't pass, they lose
their drivers license.
Statistics indicate the old/young have the most driving issues, so
when vision or driving skills are an issue, then yes.
Should registered gun owners have to do annual medical check ups? Would
that stop cases like the above?
Diagnosis of CTE cannot be made in living individuals; a clear
diagnosis is only possible during an autopsy.[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
List of NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been found in 345 of 376
deceased former National Football League (NFL) players' brains,
according to a 2023 report by the Boston University CTE Center, which
has led the effort to diagnose CTE cases
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Although the symptoms of CTE can vary, it doesn't directly cause death
but instead changes personality and behavior, making a person not feel
like themselves anymore.[15] Players with CTE can become isolated from
their friends.[16] Sometimes they become unable to tell a story,[17]
carry on a conversation,[18] or recognize their loved ones.[19] One
former player later found to have CTE described having headaches that
felt like ice picks hitting his brain.[20]
Some former players with CTE suffer from memory loss and
depression.[21] Some players and those around them deal with their
violent mood swings, rage,[22] and paranoia.[23][24] In some cases,
damage to players' brains contributes to severe alcoholism leading to death.[25][26] Two former NFL Man of the Year winners suffering from
CTE symptoms shot themselves in the chest so their brains could be
studied for the damage inflicted by football.[27][28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
But it raises
another one. Is it possible by measuring behaviour, written texts and
other markers, to predict a tendency for future gun violence?
Some former players with CTE suffer from memory loss and
depression.[21] Some players and those around them deal with their
violent mood swings, rage,[22] and paranoia.[23][24] In some cases,
damage to players' brains contributes to severe alcoholism leading to
death.[25][26] Two former NFL Man of the Year winners suffering from
CTE symptoms shot themselves in the chest so their brains could be
studied for the damage inflicted by football.[27][28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
to predict a tendency for future gun violence?
On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 16:23:05 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
But it raises
another one. Is it possible by measuring behaviour, written texts and
other markers, to predict a tendency for future gun violence?
Statistically, the odds would appear to be quite low.
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The NFL acknowledged a link between playing American football and
being diagnosed with CTE in 2016, after denying such a link for over a
decade and arguing that players' symptoms had other causes.[2]
Some former players with CTE suffer from memory loss and
depression.[21] Some players and those around them deal with their
violent mood swings, rage,[22] and paranoia.[23][24] In some cases,
damage to players' brains contributes to severe alcoholism leading to
death.[25][26] Two former NFL Man of the Year winners suffering from
CTE symptoms shot themselves in the chest so their brains could be
studied for the damage inflicted by football.[27][28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NFL_players_with_chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
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