The biggest incidents of PTSD were after World War II. Little was known of Battle Fatigue as it was called then. So, all sorts of crazy stuff happened including the start of the Hell's Angles, I believe a motorcycle gang that I believe was started by pilots from World War II. Today the life expectancy of a Hell's Angels motorcycle gang member is age 25. Self destructive behavior often comes from unaddressed PTSD.
Recently, it has been discovered that if you separate a person with PTSD from his weapons (guns and knives) you can reduce deaths from suicide or homicide by 40%.
So, if you or someone you know is at risk the first step is a family intervention to separate that person from their guns and weapons.
This is also done during divorces and breakups by courts throughout the U.S. where mostly men are legally separated from their weapons during bad breakups, divorces and custody battles. Many men cannot envision life at all without their significant others and any children they have together. So, separating such men from their weapons (whether they recover or not) will save lives outside the men (also may save the men's lives too) except for them jumping off of buildings, driving off of cliffs with their cars etc. but at least they won't have a gun or other weapons to hurt those around them when they regress into suicidal homicidal behavior. I don't understand enough about suicidal behavior in women to comment properly about it.
Most people might not understand when someone goes into extreme distress like this that the danger isn't just suicide. It is often called the suicidal homicidal complex. Often people who kill really want to kill themselves and by killing others they are vicariously committing suicide. So, whenever you see someone that kills a lot of people and then kills themselves basically they are working up the courage to kill themselves by killing all the others. Finally, at the end of a horrific frenzy they often kill themselves when they cannot deal with the reality of the blood and guts of what they have done.
So, suicide and homicide are connected naturally in a human being. So, whenever you are dealing with a truly suicidal being just by being around them your life might be in danger potentially too.
I was trying to check for accuracy regarding my comment about the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Gang:
Here is what I found if you are interested:
History
The Hells Angels were originally started by American war immigrants, the Bishop family in Fontana, California[8] followed by an amalgamation of former members from different motorcycle clubs, such as the Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington.[9][10] The Hells Angels' website denies the suggestion that any misfit or malcontent troops are connected with the motorcycle club. The website also notes that the name was suggested by Arvid Olsen, an associate of the founders, who had served in the Flying Tigers' "Hells Angels" squadron in China during World War II.[11] The name "Hells Angels" was inspired by the typical naming of American squadrons, or other fighting groups, with a fierce, death-defying title in both World War I and World War II, e.g., the Flying Tigers (American Volunteer Group) in Burma and China fielded three squadrons of P-40s and the third Squadron was called "Hell's Angels".[12] In 1930, the Howard Hughes film Hell's Angels displayed extraordinary and dangerous feats of aviation, and it is believed that the World War II groups who used that name based it on the film.Some of the early history of the HAMC is not clear, and accounts differ. According to Ralph 'Sonny' Barger, founder of the Oakland chapter, early chapters of the club were founded in San Francisco, Gardena, Fontana, as well as his chapter in Oakland, and other places independently of one another, with the members usually being unaware that there were other Hells Angels clubs. One of lesser known clubs existed in North Chino/South Pomona, CA Late 1960s-as late as1970.
Other sources claim that the Hells Angels in San Francisco were originally organized in 1953 by Rocky Graves, a Hells Angel member from San Bernardino ("Berdoo") implying that the "Frisco" Hells Angels were very much aware of their forebears.[13] The "Frisco" Hells Angels were reorganized in 1955 with thirteen charter members, Frank Sadilek serving as President, and using the smaller, original logo. The Oakland chapter, at the time headed by Barger used a larger version of the "Death's Head" patch nicknamed the "Barger Larger" which was first used in 1959. It later became the club standard.
The Hells Angels are often depicted in a similarly mythical fashion as other modern-day legends like the James-Younger Gang; free-spirited, iconic, bound by brotherhood and loyalty. At other times, such as in the 1966 Roger Corman film The Wild Angels where they are depicted as violent and nihilistic, they are portrayed as a violent criminal gang and a scourge on society.[14]
The club became prominent within, and established its initial notoriety as part of, the 1960s counterculture movement in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene, London, in England, and elsewhere where it played a part at many of the movement's seminal events. Original members were directly connected to many of the counterculture's primary leaders, such as Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Mick Farren and Tom Wolfe. The club launched the career of "Gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson
end quote from Wikipedia under the heading "Hell's Angels" under the history section.
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