Former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle was fatally shot along with another man Saturday on a Texas gun range, a sheriff told local newspapers.
Erath County Sheriff Tommy Bryant said Kyle, 38, and a second man were found dead at Rough Creek Lodge's shooting range west of Glen Rose, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Stephenville Empire-Tribune. Glen Rose is about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
The IRONY is overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteOK, we have a guy who has a gun, knows how to use it, and he's in an area loaded with guns.
ReplyDeleteYet, he gets gunned down.
I can't imagine what the gunloon response will be.
Something radical, like waiting to see what the investigation reveals so we can discuss facts rather than conjecture...
ReplyDeleteIt's really quite amusing. He was probably the most dangerous and well prepared man in the entire US, and he gets killed by a punk. Reminds me of Wyatt Earp.
ReplyDeleteUm, Wyatt Earp died as an old man of natural causes.
DeleteThis is the first documented murder that took place at a gun range that I have ever been able to find. I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteThis is the trouble with criminals: we (the good guys) never know when they (criminals) will attack. All we can do is react which means criminals will always have the advantage. And since the bad guys always have the advantage, we need as many good guys as possible that can respond to such an event.
My preferred response to such an event is to be armed so I can defend myself and my family. Being armed certainly does not guarantee that I will prevail. Being armed guarantees that I have more options and much better odds when someone goes bad and lashes out.
http://mikeb302000.blogspot.it/2013/02/gun-range-deaths-are-not-all-suicides.html
DeleteThat took about 5 seconds. That makes your first sentence seem like a bit of a lie, don't you think? That you've "ever been able to find," you said.
My best guess is that he was surprised. It happens. I had friends in the military who were as highly skilled and trained as Mr. Kyle who are no longer with us because they were surprised, or their equipment malfunctioned, or they were outnumbered, etc. Likewise, I know people who were never in the military and who are alive today only because they had a firearm when it was desperately needed.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in the USCG I carried a weapon while boarding suspected drug boats and ships (actually, for all boardings), even though we were taught that if the bad guys wanted to kill us badly enough they were almost guaranteed to succeed. Why, then, the weapons? Because they increased our chances of survival. Did they provide an impenetrable shield? Of course not. That there are no absolute guarantees of safety or success does not mean people should be deprived of their right to self defense or the means to exercise that right.