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Chris Kyle, record-holding sniper as Navy SEAL, killed in double slaying at Erath County gun range
dallasnews ^ | 03 February 2013 | TASHA TSIAPERAS

Posted on 02/03/2013 5:30:27 AM PST by JoeProBono

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21 posted on 02/03/2013 9:42:44 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Venturer

Actually, after WWII, the press put out lots of horror stories about returning veterans “who have been trained to rape and kill”. Seriously. The truth was that the vast majority had years of ‘chaste’ stored up.

In any event, the veterans as a group had some huge priorities. First they wanted a college education and a good job. Then somewhere in there they wanted to get married and have kids. The war was over, and there was no time to fret about being a civilian again.

At the time, a lot of universities were still gender segregated, and all mixed gender activities had to have a faculty chaperone. In many places students could not even own a car or live off campus.

The response of the veterans to this was “Hell no!”, and they changed these schools overnight, being particularly persuasive individuals.

(I heard one account of a Dean of Women at a prominent college, who was horrified at the prospect of veterans “raping” her “ladies”, who in truth were as desperate as the veterans to do “a little raping” themselves. Or maybe a whole lot of raping, and marriage, and kids.)

In any event, for years thereafter there was the occasional story of some veteran who went nuts, though I might add, at a statistically *lower* frequency than civilians as a whole.


22 posted on 02/03/2013 9:44:42 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: JoeProBono

Odd number of notable gun people starting to end up dead under odd circumstances.

For an honorable mention to that list, Massad Ayoob survived a fluke helicopter crash last week.


23 posted on 02/03/2013 9:49:09 AM PST by ctdonath2 (End of debate. Your move.)
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24 posted on 02/03/2013 9:57:39 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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My FIL was at the Hurtgen Forest; my father was a WWII Marine in the Pacific; I was a VN Marine up on the DMZ.
Between the three of us, we knew PTSD.
25 posted on 02/03/2013 10:01:00 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Didn’t Eleanor Roosevelt write a magazine article calling for returning vets to be placed on an island in the pacific for six months or so before coming home, so as to be able to assimilate back into society? She felt that the brutality of the war and what they had experienced made it unsafe for them to return too soon after the fighting ended.


26 posted on 02/03/2013 10:04:43 AM PST by Deadeye Division
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To: JoeProBono

The jackels are already out, they have no shame ,no honor, no respect.http://twitchy.com/2013/02/03/twisted-ghouls-descend-on-murder-victim-chris-kyle/


27 posted on 02/03/2013 10:04:50 AM PST by ABN 505
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Ok, I am not one to buy into conspiracy theories, but this just stinks to high heaven. I am getting real worried about the many so called coincidentally timed shootings around America as of late.

I cannot be the only one who has been keeping my guns cleaned, ready and my powder dry.


28 posted on 02/03/2013 10:15:52 AM PST by Yellowstone Joe
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To: JoeProBono

RIP. Horrible to lose someone like this.

It’s not a conspiracy though. Everything that goes wrong nowadays does not equal conspiracy. There is evil in the world.


29 posted on 02/03/2013 7:45:31 PM PST by justice14 ("stand up defend or lay down and die")
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