Again, attack the messenger. I am guessing that most of you who have commented here did not bother to follow the link and read the entire article.
debk,
Some attempt was made but the Pentagon told the Times that they did not keep any such statistics on members of the military and vets. Without those statistics a statistical comparison with the civilian population (for which they are kept) is not possible.
121 is not likely the complete number of such incidents as the only method they had of tracking down the incidents were news reports. If the news report did not mention the perpetrator was a vet then the times did not pick up on it. This is actually the strongest criticism of their method and it is included in the article. This would be further evidence of none of you bothering to read it before laying out your criticism. Go back and read the article and you will find two other criticisms that are stronger than any of the commenters have presented.
