Posted on 02/03/2013 12:57:33 AM PST by zeestephen
Good on Sarah for not being skeered.
What is this? The 60's?
My guess, and this is only a guess, is that this had nothing to do with PSTD, and it was personal of some nature.
Just a guess.
My guess is this was a hit. Muslims are vindictive, well funded, well connected, and living in our cities.
Some small town ranges are just a range with a gate and the members know the lock combination. This happened within a 30 minute drive of where I grew up.
Heck, there’s a town in Arkansas with a range that has no gate or anything. It’s at a city park.
Yeah. Big city people haven’t a clue about small town America.
This happened at the Rough Creek Lodge a very upscale hunting Lodge out of Glen Rose. We stayed there once and the room next to ours was the GHW Bush suite. Very classy place.
I grew up about 30 miles Northwest of there in Mineral Wells.
What you say is correct 101st.
A great friend of mine re-uped after first 911, was 6 mths shy of being too old and went to serve two tours in Iraq as a front line grunt.
He is now, according to military, 80% disabled with 60% PTSD, owns a gunshop where he sales and repairs weapons.
He is afraid the government is going to take what he has built and is probably going to close down shortly just because he is classed PTSD.
Are you familiar with the Rough Creek Lodge?
(Seems 'wisdom' might better prescribe; 'conditioning MO's' in safe environs. And not those where PTSD individual is in fact; in public 'firing space'; 'with bullet-loaded gun).
By the very definition and 'range' of PTSD symptoms; it would seem a 'calculated risk' in arming a PTSD individual - who; if he 'slips out of present reality and into his traumatic past; he would no longer recognize his current environment, as the local gun range. Rather. . .he would be; in 'truth' of his moment; in a war zone. And 'for real'; he would be armed - with gun - and dangerous.
Whatever the 'hindsight'; a terrible tragedy here with loss of life; and with a guarantee that there is even a worse suffering ahead; for the PTSD soldier/friend.
Only unrelenting 'push back' will do.
I'm too easily suseptable tin foil thought processes these days.
Don’t think for a minute a diagnosis of PTS won’t be added to the list! How else will returning servicemen be denied access to arms?
Prayers for Chris and his neighbor’s families.
Have to agree. Someone put him up to it. He wouldn't just shoot the guy who was trying to help him. However, the media will NOT look into this, of course. Or, it was personal.
Something tells me your right. It is the media that is telling us this is PTSD yet we don’t know for sure. The same media that is protecting that POS in the White Hut is telling us this. I can’t put my finger on it but something is just not right.
Time for public hangings to be reinstated.
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In all, he was awarded two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars with Valor and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
“I don’t care about the medals,” Kyle told the Star-Telegram in a 2012 interview. “I didn’t do it for the money or the awards. I did it because I felt like it was something that needed to be done and it was honorable. I loved the guys.”
A member of SEAL Team 3, Kyle picked off his targets from rooftops or windows of abandoned buildings during the 2003 war against Iraq, which toppled the Saddam Hussein regime. Primarily serving as a sniper and wounded twice, he provided “overwatch” protection for Marines and other U.S. troops and earned a reputation for his proficiency.
Most shots ranged from 200 to 1,200 yards. His longest, most remarkable kill — from 1.2 miles away — took out an insurgent aiming a rocket launcher at an approaching Army convoy.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/02/4595767/top-navy-seal-sniper-killed-on.html#storylink=cpy
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