yeah its weird for sure, but its not like eddie was an untrained civilian. he did basic training and combat time, and was a pretty big dude (tall) not muscular-but still pretty strong (played football together, and he held his own in the weight room even for being "scrawny") . and who really knows what the government really had him doing during his time. he was broken coming out of it though, a close friend of mine is close to eddie's sister even to this day and all the times she tells of him trying to find help from the VA only to be given medication that didn't work well with him and told he'd have to stay on the medication or when given different medication were worse/no better for his mental health. I personally think taking a guy with eddie's mental history to a shooting range the worst of ideas. but I also think eddie either didnt do it at all and is being forced to take the heat, or an idea like the one you present with programming or whatever. but we will probably never really know the truth.

yeah its weird for sure, but its not like eddie was an untrained civilian. he did basic training and combat time, and was a pretty big dude (tall) not muscular-but still pretty strong (played football together, and he held his own in the weight room even for being "scrawny") . and who really knows what the government really had him doing during his time. he was broken coming out of it though, a close friend of mine is close to eddie's sister even to this day and all the times she tells of him trying to find help from the VA only to be given medication that didn't work well with him and told he'd have to stay on the medication or when given different medication were worse/no better for his mental health. I personally think taking a guy with eddie's mental history to a shooting range the worst of ideas. but I also think eddie either didnt do it at all and is being forced to take the heat, or a wild card idea like the one you present. but we will probably never really know the truth.