“This dude is straight-up nuts.” Chris Kyle texting his pal Chad Littlefield next to him in his pickup truck with soon to be murderer Eddie Ray Routh in the back seat.
“He’s right behind me. Watch my six.” Replied Littlefield
This is how the trial began the other day with opening statement from the defense lawyer for Eddie Ray Routh who murdered both men.
Both Kyle and Littlefield were armed when they took Routh to a gun range and gave him a gun. Knowing he was nuts and that he had been drinking, Hell everyone drinks when playing with guns, that’s the fun of it. Routh shot them both six times each. There is not only a rejection of being armed makes one safe in that, but also a bit of Darwin.
Because Brian Williams lost his job for a silly embellishment concerning the wrong helicopter at the same time this American Sniper hit the media and made a hero of a pathological liar I can’t let it go.
Unlike the movie portrayal, gun enthusiast and sniper Chris Kyle had no remorse about shooting a couple hundred people including women and children half mile away who never saw it coming. In fact in his book he said he enjoyed both the war and the killing and had no remorse. Clint Eastwood added the remorse to placate Hollywood and hopefully get an Oscar.
Are snipers heroes or cowards? That’s a personal question best left unanswered. What is not in question is the gungoonery that dominated Chris Kyle’s entire life. Growing up, in the military, as a civilian life, at home life, his death and now the trial of the man who murdered him.
Chris Kyle lived by and with the gun. Guns were so much a part of him that he even made up stories about shooting and killing a couple carjackers in West Texas [all police and authorities say it never happened] and shooting and killing some 30 looters after Katrina [all police and authorities say it never happened], and of course he was recently proved a liar and fined $1.8 million by a jury in a court of law for saying he punched out Jesse Venture in a bar for demeaning our troops. That last one is about the only incident in his live that did not have a gun front and center.
His family hobby was guns, with his kids shooting guns, guns in the house, guns in the car, guns at the range, in fact from his wife at the trial we find that drinking and going to the range with guns was common, which I know full well from my gun daze.
Our kids can no longer go out at night, they cannot even walk to school in the daytime, they cannot wander to visit friends without PLAY DATES, in our cities many kids sleep in iron bathtubs. Here in Texas we have groups of these gun enthusiasts carrying assault rifles not only into stores and restaurants and hanging out on street corners, but in legislative offices in Austin to threaten and intimidate legislators that they tell had better not vote against them or else. Vote against what?
Constitutional Open Carry which means carrying both assault rifles and handguns anywhere anyone wants without a permit or restrictions. Came out of Committee 7 to 2 FOR yesterday. Dan Patrick, Greg Abbot, the GOP, Jesus, God and the NRA are all for it.
Those who really really want a gun are the very ones who should really really not be allowed to have a gun