The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain

大规模枪击事件凶手大脑内部的令人震惊的发现

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2024-03-13

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Warning: this episode contains descriptions of violence and self harm. Last fall, an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, before turning the gun on himself. Dave Philipps, who covers military affairs for The Times, had already been investigating the idea that soldiers could be injured just by firing their own weapons. Analyzing the case of the gunman in Lewiston, Dave explains, could change our understanding of the effects of modern warfare on the human brain. Guest: Dave Philipps, who covers war, the military and veterans for The New York Times.
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  • From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the daily a mass shooting last fall by an army reservist in Maine prompted my colleague Dave Phillips to search for answers about whether the soldier's service could have been a factor.

  • Today, the surprising answer, Dave found and how it may change our understanding of the effects of modern warfare on the human brain.

  • It's Wednesday, March 13.

  • So, Dave, you've been working on a series of stories on injuries to soldiers in the us military.

  • And last week there was kind of a sudden, an unexpected discovery related to that reporting you'd been doing.

  • Tell me about it.

  • So what I've been looking into for a couple months was the idea that soldiers can be injured just by firing their own weapons, by standing next to the blast of a mortar or launching a rocket from a shoulder fire rocket launcher.

  • Some of these big, heavy weapons, the blast wave is strong enough to really injure their brains.

  • And I'd been working on that over a couple months.

  • Cause it's very new and there's a lot of uncertain stuff.

  • And I was still working on it in October when I got a call from the New York Times national desk, and they said, hey, there's been a mass shooting in Maine.

  • We need your help.

  • The suspect was in the military.