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.
"RA RA America is the devil right Mike" Well, I wouldn't go that far, but something like that.
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I'm not quite sure what the point of the post is. I'm not sure if I was commenting here when this post first appeared. A good man who died trying to help his fellow soldiers.
ReplyDeleteThe point of the original post was about shootings at gun ranges, about a failure in situational awareness, about guns do more harm than good. The reposting is about the hysterical ra-ra support the movie is receiving.
ReplyDeleteAh, so liking the movie can only be explained by jingoism. Well, I guess looking at the world through that kind of lens certainly simplifies things. Doesn't reflect reality, but when have you let that stop you.
ReplyDeleteThe movie likely would not have received the support that it has if the anti American zealots like Mike Moore had kept their mouths shut...thanks to them the movie has done very well..
ReplyDeleteWow George, that is really twisted and stretched logic going on there. So it has nothing to do with the fact that this sniper, Chris Kyle, has saved many, many lives of American fighters by taking out the snipers who were shooting them? It has nothing to do with the fact that American people recognize that fact and some don't even know who that fat libtard Mike Moore is?
The movie has done very well on its own. If the public at large disagreed with Chris, then they wouldn't go see the movie. Chris made national news long before Mike Moore had an opinion, such as it is.
Gunsmoke...I said nothing of the sort so you can take your assertions and put them back in your pocket and save them for someone else.
If you do not believe that the negative press has had a positive effect on the overall ticket sales for the movie which is all I said in my prior comment then all I can say to you sir is ....Wow
"so liking the movie can only be explained by jingoism."
No, not really, but the extraordinary success of it is.
Yet, he gets gunned down.
I can't imagine what the gunloon response will be.
This 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.
That 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.
When 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.