NEW YORK — Since retiring from the Navy SEALs, Chris Kyle, whom the Pentagon has deemed as among America’s deadliest snipers, would occasionally take fellow veterans shooting as a kind of therapy to salve battlefield scars.
Kyle, 38, author of the best-selling book “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” was with a struggling former soldier on just such an outing on Saturday, hoping that a day at a shooting range would bring some relief, said a friend, Travis Cox.
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What is going on!? So much random killing across all social boundaries. Rich and poor, the uneducated and Academics, all races, colors, religions, (and most horribily) young, even pre-pubescent girls. Our "Society" has an illness of huge proportion. When did our Moral Courage leave us? When did the life of an innocent daily become a Pawn in some mentally ill person's nightmare inner life? What can we do!? This Nation, once famous for our generosity of Spirit, is crippled, and blind.
Sadly it's been going on for eons but the current trend is to focus on gun-realted issues. It was just a year or two ago when we saw what looked like an exploding trend in suicides related to bullying. Of course that's still going on but you'd need to set up a Google Alert to see how often. Before that we had a focus on hate crimes that trended from religious issues to sexuality. Again, it's still going on every day but the media and most politicians have moved on. Today is my sons 15th birthday. I hug him every day and tell him I love him many times. We eat dinner together as a family almost every night and the TV is off. All we can do is teach the ones we are resposible for and never hide them from what is going on in the world around them. Change begins at home but isn't limited by the walls of this house.
I can't imagine killing another human being, but our species has done it from the beginning. I don't believe that war is necessary, but I'm sitting in the comfort of my cozy cottage in Pennsylvania, and I know that without our military incursions I'd likely be armed myself, though that is not now nor has ever been the case.
Going to a shooting range to help someone "heal" from the scars of the horrors he's witnessed and participated in seems counterintuitive to me. Once more we see that mental illness is a crippling disease and its prevalence needs to be addressed post-haste.
Excellent post!
The telling comment (which the moonbats want to ignore is...):
"and had suffered from mental illness"
Apparently some thought this mentally ill person should be armed. What better way to work through your problems.
Ya, that one was a puzzler. As I've posted before...... there are some relatively normal people who should never, ever be near a gun. I grew up with one. He's burdened with perpetual anger and an irrational temper. If I ever find out he's a gun owner, I'll speak up and quickly. I wouldn't hand him a loaded nacho.
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