Insensitive Blog Post About Recent CF Injury

Remember this incident last week?

The Crooked in Canada web log has this to say about it:

"....A Canadian soldier who was maybe looking to getting out of serving in Afghanistan has managed to shoot his or herself and according to the limited reports coming out of Kandahar, the self-inflicted gunshot wound was accidental. Hmm…

Maybe it was one of those deliberate kinds of accidents. You know the kind of accident I am talking about, the one that helps get somebody out of a jam, or away from a place he or she just doesn’t want to be in, like a war zone for example.

Having said that, I wonder how many Canadian soldiers have thought about shooting themselves to avoid having to serve out their tour of duty. Surely there are a few soldiers who have thought of that as an easy way out, right.

I wonder if the wounded soldier was aware that the so-called “fighting season” in Afghanistan is over now. I’m thinking if he did know [that] he might not have accidentally shot himself."

Notwithstanding the fact we don't know what happened yet, how would this blogger feel if he read this sort of post about a member of his/her family being injured, or even attempting suicide?

A tiny bit more here.