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

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I forget that science fiction actively selects for people who read against context.

Try: weird gullible middle-aged / elderly right-wing gun nuts who believe in bizarre science fictional conspiracy theories about the government. Some of them kidnap five-year-olds and shoot bus drivers! Others claim all these tragedies happening so close in time to each other is obviously the government's fault -- the Times monitors their comments (and hopefully forwards some of the ranker ones to the FBI), but try KHOU's coverage on this story.

[sean o'hara (from livejournal.com)]

I'm not reading against context. You called the kidnapper a "modal Analog reader" for absolutely no reason other than to throw a snide comment against people who have no relevance to the conversation.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Ain't terribly impressed with the fake outrage. The average age of Analog subscribers, the last time anyone bothered to check, was 57. Its readership is much whiter than America. It's gullible, because they don't cancel their subscriptions in response to bad science. From their letters, they actively believe in untrue theories about the world.

There may be a dime's worth of difference between them and a 65-year-old retired white truck driver who believed untrue things about the government. But there's probably not fifteen cents.