Gun therapy hits unexpected snag

[james_davis_nicoll]

[Chris Kyle] returned home to become a best-selling author and a mentor to other veterans, sometimes taking them shooting at a gun range near his Texas home as a kind of therapy to salve battlefield scars, friends said. One such veteran was Eddie Ray Routh, a 25-year-old Marine who had served tours in Iraq and Haiti.

But on Saturday, far from a war zone, Mr. Routh turned on Mr. Kyle, 38, and a second man, Chad Littlefield, 35, shortly after they arrived at an exclusive shooting range near Glen Rose, Tex., about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, law enforcement authorities said Sunday. The officials said that for reasons that were still unclear, Mr. Routh shot and killed both men with a semiautomatic handgun before fleeing in a pickup truck belonging to Mr. Kyle.

Comments

[david wilford (from livejournal.com)]

You mean an armed society isn't a polite society? I'm shocked, shocked to see that this might not be the case. Perhaps the arms were defective in some way.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Well, clearly Kyle and Littlefield weren't polite _enough_. The establishment of a polite society can't be done without breaking a few eggs, and some people will be a bit slow to learn the importance of keeping their mouth shut and nodding at everything the ranty guy with the gun says.

Bruce

[montedavis.livejournal.com]

And sadly, with the gun-grabbing frenzy gripping the nation, arms makers don't have the confidence to invest in technologies that could eliminate such defects. A higher cyclic rate of fire, faster clip-lock, and better muzzle-flash suppression would usher in a golden age of politeness.

[maruad.livejournal.com]

Teflon coating for barrel exteriors as well. Let's see them get a grip on that!

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

I've long been arguing that the only sensible form of home defense weapon is the davy crockett man portable nuclear artillery rocket.

You can't sit on your bayonet, but nothing ensures politeness quite like a Man Portable Nuclear Deterrant (or MANPOND for short).

[maruad.livejournal.com]

You used to think of the Alamo when you thought of Davy Crockett. Now you will remember the Afterglow TM from the hole where your enemies once stood!

a great idea!

[hot-soup.livejournal.com]

Bob the Angry Flower had a strip on that

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[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

With a deadman switch, just in case they get any fancy ideas about shooting first!