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Sunday, February 3, 2013

American Sniper Chris Kyle Shot to Death on Texas Gun Range

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“I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.”
~ Chris Kyle, from his book American Sniper

From the New York Times
Mr. Kyle wrote the best-selling book, “American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History,” detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009.

Mr. Haschel said Erath County deputies responded to a shooting at the Rough Creek Lodge west of Glenn Rose at about 5:30 p.m. Saturday and found the bodies of Mr. Kyle, 38, and a second man, 35-year-old Chad Littlefield. Glenn Rose is about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.

The police said Mr. Routh opened fire on the two men at about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, then fled in a Ford pickup truck. At about 8 p.m., Mr. Routh arrived at his home in Lancaster, about 17 miles southeast of Dallas. Police arrested him after a brief pursuit and took him to the Lancaster Police Department.

From the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram
The suspect, identified as Eddie Ray Routh, 25, was pursued to a house in Lancaster by officers, including a local SWAT team. Routh tried to flee in a vehicle but was stopped about 9 p.m. after spikes were laid across a road, Bryant said.
. . . Witnesses told sheriff's investigators that the gunman opened fire on the two men around 3:30 p.m., then fled in a pickup belonging to one of the victims. Cox said it was Kyle's. The Sheriff's Department didn't get a call until around 6 p.m.

. . . A member of SEAL Team 3, Kyle picked off his targets from rooftops or windows of abandoned buildings during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which toppled Saddam Hussein. 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 and most remarkable kill -- from 1.2 miles away -- took out an insurgent aiming a rocket launcher at an approaching Army convoy.


From Politico
A news release from Travis Cox, director of FITCO Cares, a nonprofit Kyle helped start, said Kyle served four tours of duty.
“Chris died doing what he filled his heart with passion - serving soldiers struggling with the fight to overcome PTSD,” Cox said in the release. “He will be forever missed.”

From Zap2It
Kyle earned two Silver Stars, five Bronze Stars With Valor and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement medals.
This past summer, Kyle was one of the "operatives" on the NBC reality show, "Stars Earn Stripes," in which he was paired with actor Dean Cain, who demonstrated an effusive affection and admiration for Kyle.

From USA Today
Kyle was sued by former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura over a claim in the book that Kyle punched Ventura in a bar fight over unpatriotic remarks in 2006. Ventura says that the punch never happened and that the claim defamed him.
Kyle had sought to have Ventura's claims of invasion of privacy and "unjust enrichment" dismissed, saying there was no legal basis for them. A federal judge said the lawsuit should proceed. Both sides were told to be ready for trial by Aug.1.





Interview with Guns.com
(transcribed by snark amendment)

On his Commander-In-Chief, President Obama, and Gun Control

I don't know exactly what he (Obama) was doing, but he's definitely against the Second Amendment, tryin' to ban everything, so uh, you know . . . Good Luck. 'Cause I've talked to a bunch of the cops and some Secret Service guys and they're not going to dare go to anyone's house, especially if they know they have guns. They don't wanna be knockin' on doors. You start puttin' these bans in effect and people who don't know anything about the guns, they start thinkin' 'well, who needs thirty-round magazines.' Really? That's just opening the doors to taking more of our rights. Our founding fathers had the exact same weapons as the military - we don't even have that now.

England is a great example. Australia - they did a gun ban. Their gun violence went down, that's for sure. They're overall crime rate went up. When people aren't afraid because they know everyone, the populace, is unarmed, what's going to deter them from attacking someone, robbing them, or committing a crime? Especially when you're law enforcement in England, unarmed for the most part. So yeah, you look at ...Switzerland - has the lowest crime rate. Everybody has a weapon, 'cause everyone has to do, I think, it's two years in the military. And you keep your rifle and you go home. So everybody's armed. The lowest violence - there's something to it.

On Arming Teachers with Guns

In Texas, the independent school districts can decide themselves if they want guns in schools. It doesn't need the state to say it. It's already said - it's your decision. So my company's already been going in (Kyle is President of Craft International). Depending on how big the school is and how much money they have, we're putting our armed guards in there, or we're hiring off-duty police to put in there . . . the school puts in names of teachers who want to carry, then we do a screening process which is three-sided. Emotional, physical, but we also want your peering eval (?Peer Evaluation?) because you can lie about things but we wanna monitor you. And we want to put you through training. And it's ... we try to let them know you're not a cop, you're not a killer. Most of these people (perps), if they see a gun they're either going to kill themselves or run away. The worst thing ever is for a teacher to have to shoot someone if that teacher's not mentally prepared for living with that.

On Soldiers Coming Back to Society After the War

I was out with a bunch of my former guys and they're all saying they had a hard time getting out too. It's tough. I mean you go from being military to civilian and we let our job identify who we are. It's heroic, it's honorable, and you're doing it for the greater good, and all of a sudden you don't have an identity. You have to learn a whole new way to act because you can't act the same way we do at work out in public. And people think you're a savage or somethin'. So it's hard to get your head around. You do and you adjust, but it takes a while. I've seen a lot of intiatives, people trying to do job training. Vets are given the priority as far as who's being hired first, and who's being on job training to get them read for that job. I think it's awesome.

On Fame

It's strange. It definitely makes you feel good when you got people coming up saying 'Hey, thanks, you really brighten my eyes.' Or 'I was going through the same thing and was glad to know someone else was going through it.' And opening people's eyes as far as look at the families too, it's not just the warriors - it's the families. I can't walk the (Gun) Show because I keep getting stopped by people 'Hey thanks, it's awesome.' I'm glad they're not wantin' to beat me up.

On watching the movie "Zero Dark Thirty"

I've heard from all the team guys that they're refusing to go watch it because it was supposed to be pro-Obama and falsifies some different stuff. But talking to some of the people who have actually seen it, they said it's not that way. ...I don't have much down time. If I do, I'm going to go hunt.

On the Media

I saw one (interview) when I walked in, it was with him (Piers Morgan) and Alex Jones. I'm not an Alex Jones supporter, but as far as his stance on that, I'm 100% in agreement. But he looked like an idiot by blowing up and doing that. (laughs) And he should have handled it a different way and I think his opinion might have resonated a little bit better. (cringes) Just a little . . . over the top.


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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and many friends of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tonight. Todd and I first met Chris in Pella, Iowa, when he helped out with security for the premiere of the film “The Undefeated.” And later we became friends with Chris when he was on “Stars Earn Stripes” with Todd. Chris was a wonderful man, a good friend, and a true American hero who loved our country and served honorably. He was loved and admired by so many, and he will never be forgotten.
- Todd and Sarah Palin on Facebook



Live by the gun, die by the gun.
~ dustinrorie on YouTube

Still waiting for Obama to come on TV and tell us the country lost a great man today.
Like when he had all the flags lowered when Specter died.)
Still waiting…..
Guess I’ll go brew some coffee…
Guess I could probably grow the plant, roast it, grind it and then brew it…
Still waiting…
~ John1776 on TheBlaze

Guns do not protect you against bullets.
~ xxdr zombiexx on Daily Kos

. . . In the last TWO years 32 former SEALs have died. And more than 100 prominent pro-gun activists have also been killed. Not exactly very subtle. The NRA was arguing JUST DAYS AGO that there was NEVER a shooting at a gun range. And then this happens???? Of course something is up.
America??? This IS your call to arms! It won't get any clearer or plainer or MORE OBVIOUS than this. The mass exterminations have already begun.
~ tvercetti1 on YouTube

If only there had been someone armed and fully trained to stop the lunatic killing these two guys . . . oh wait. This tragedy shows how pathetic the argument the NRA offered to solve gun violence is.
~ 2011Walker on YouTube

Could the government make his planned murder more obvious? Jesus Christ, not subtle at all.
~ brenchtoast44 on YouTube

This guy took delight in blowing out other peoples brains. You live by the sword.......next!
~ VacManCan on Breitbart

It smells like revenge.
~ DianeWE on Breitbart

Indeed its sad, leaving two kids behind, but just wonder how many children are fatherless because of his actions in the Oil Wars, poetic justice?
~ MarkP. on Breitbart

I guarantee you one thing: This story will change several times before it ends. And it has already begun to do so. Different names, completely separate locations, alternate times, and number of victims. I no longer believe a thing I read and have become to think some "characters" are created by special ops complete with a back story for such type of "national tragedies" I was never a conspiracy nut, but am becoming one. If it is true that a fellow vet was slain, God rest his soul.
~ AmericanTruther on Breitbart






























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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Gayle Trotter Says Weak Women Under Attack Need Assault Weapons

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From Gayle Trotter, a senior fellow at the conservative Independent Women's Forum
Guns make women safer. Using a firearm with a magazine holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition, a woman would have a fighting chance even against multiple attackers.

Young women are speaking out as to why AR-15 weapons are their weapon of choice. The guns are accurate. They have good handling. They’re light. They’re easy for women to hold.

And most importantly, their appearance. An assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon, and the peace of mind that a woman has as she’s facing three, four, five violent attackers, intruders in her home, with her children screaming in the background, the peace of mind that she has knowing that she has a scary-looking gun gives her more courage when she’s fighting hardened, violent criminals.

And if we ban these types of assault weapons, you are putting women at a great disadvantage, more so than men, because they do not have the same type of physical strength and opportunity to defend themselves in a hand-to-hand struggle. They’re not criminals, they’re moms, they’re young women. And they’re not used to violence confrontations.

The peace of mind that she has, knowing that she has a scary-looking gun, gives her more courage when she’s fighting hardened, violent criminals. If we ban these types of assault weapons, you are putting these types of women at a great disadvantage–more so than men because they don’t have the same type of physical strength and opportunity to defend themselves in a hand-to-hand struggle.


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This is the dumbest thing I've heard so far. Ask Ms. Giffords if she would have had time to whip out a AR-15 when she was attacked. Most gun violence happens in a split second, even the police who are the trained professionals have a hard time reacting.
~ Hawaii55 on Washington Post

Looks like someone wants to be the next Sarah Palin! But could you please leave us ladies out of your defense of Second Amendment rights? That is not a gun in our pocket and we are not happy to see you.
~ Jezebel

A young woman in her home defending her babies against three, four, five violent intruders? What kind of gun-nut fantasy is this? When does that ever happen? She might as well say that she's defending her babies from 20 shambling zombies.
~ amordecosmos on Raw Story

If their baby is crying, maybe they should put down the f***ing rifle and pick up the baby.
~ Flying Squid on Raw Story

She forgot to mention the approaching horde of zombies, the black helicopters hovering overhead, and the imminent threat to her bible and her 75-foot American flag, by god!
There she stood, proud and fierce, the wind of history stirring her long, dark hair. Before this intrepid mother, her screaming babies behind her, a hit squad of Black, Arabs, Mexicans and gays pounded at her door, their fangs dripping with an evil hunger to take a census. Momma Gayle Trotter held up her terrifying weapon, and the ravening horde fell back in fear.
And now a word from our sponsor, Big Guns R Us.
~ jimbo92107 on Raw Story

A woman with a baby in one hand and and AR-15 in the other, fending off marauding gangs of rapists. Put the comic books down, sweetie.
~ HoratioGalt on Huffington Post

We seem to have a lot of people who believe the zombie apocalypse is actually happening right now. Either that, or they think Red Dawn is a documentary. Good grief. Our gun problem is directly related to the damaged people who are so afraid of life, they can't envision life without a weapon at their side. These are fear based people - lacking self esteem and self confidence. We do not need these people making our legislative decisions. I'm sorry their parents didn't give them enough love - that IS sad. But now they need to take their damaged selves home while the healthy people solve problems.
~ Stanwyck on Huffington Post

Question: Where in the world do these people live that women are having to single handedly repel multiple attackers to defend their home and children? Have we entered the days of Mad Max and the liberal media is just keeping quiet?
The idea that we are just an AR-15 away from totally anarchy is absurd. And sitting in front of the United Stataes Senate and claiming women need fully automatic weapons to repel the advancing hordes makes you look foolish and diminishes the Pro Gun Rights people who aren't nuts.
~ danzbassman on Huffington Post



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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Wayne LaPierre - Kids Need Security Blanket of Guns and Guards


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It’s time to throw an immediate blanket of security around our children.
Wayne LaPierre of the NRA at the Senate Hearing on Gun Control







One only wishes [NRA Executive VIce President and CEO] Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these [school shooting] scenes, where they would be required to put on booties and rubber gloves and help clean up the blood, the brains, and the chunks of intestine still containing the poor wads of half-digested food that were some innocent bystander’s last meal.
~ From author Stephen King's ebook on Gun Violence

My problem with background checks is you’re never going to get criminals to go through universal background checks. All the law-abiding people . . . you'll create an enormous federal bureaucracy, unfunded, hitting all the little people in the country who will have to go through it, pay the fees, pay the taxes. We don’t even prosecute anybody right now that goes through the system we have. So we're going to make all those law-abiding people go through the system, and then we aren't going to prosecute any of the bad guys if they do catch one. None of it makes any sense in the real world.
~ Wayne LaPierre of the NRA

Mr. LaPierre, that's the point! Criminals won't go to purchase the guns, because there will be a background check! We'll stop them from the original purchase. You missed that point completely! And I think it's basic. (applause in the room)
~ Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois


Thank you for inviting me here today. This is an important conversation.
For our children. For our communities. For Democrats and Republicans.
Speaking is difficult but I need to say something important.
Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children.
We must do something. It will be hard but the time is now.
You must act. Be bold. Be courageous. Americans are counting on you.
Thank you.
~ Former Representative from Arizona, Gabby Giffords, opening testimony in the Senate Hearing on Gun Control

Actually...while we're having this hearing, and we certainly don't know the details, but in Phoenix, Arizona, there is another what seems to be possibly a shooting with multiple victims. And it doesn't seem like anybody's been killed, but the initial reports are 3 people injured . . . with multiple shots fired.
~ Gabby Giffords husband, Mark Kelly, at Senate Hearing on Gun Control












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Saturday, January 19, 2013

NRA Gun Appreciation Day Same Weekend as Inauguration ~ W/ Latest Shooting Updates

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CBS News
Groups are calling on gun rights activists to go to local gun stores, gun ranges or gun shows in order to send a message to the president and Congress.

“The Obama administration has shown that it is more than willing to trample the Constitution to impose its dictates upon the American people,” “Gun Appreciation Day” chairman Larry Ward, president of Political Media, Inc., said in a press release. “If the American people don’t fight back now, Obama will do the Second Amendment what he has already done to the First with Obamacare – gut it without a moment’s thought to our basic constitutional rights.”

The groups are hoping to reach up to 50 million Americans ahead of “Gun Appreciation Day” which will take place two days before Obama’s inauguration.

“We have never had a president who so callously disregards the Constitution, Congress, the courts, and the will of the American people,” Ward said in a statement. “And that’s why this outpouring of public support is so important for our constitutional safeguards to keep and bear arms. If, as this president claims, the American people are at risk from murderous rampagers, the logical solution is to arm, not present a docile target.”








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Update On Gun Show Shootings From USA Today
In Indianapolis, police said a 54-year-old man was injured when he inadvertently shot himself while leaving a gun show. Emory L. Cozee was loading his .45-caliber semi-automatic when he shot himself in the hand as he was leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show at the state fairgrounds, state police said. Loaded personal weapons aren't allowed inside the show. Cozee, of Indianapolis, was hospitalized for treatment. Police say the shooting was accidental and no charges will be filed. And in Ohio, a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend, police said. The gun's magazine had been removed from the firearm, but one round remained in the chamber, police said. Police Chief Pat Berarducci said it appears the bullet ricocheted off the floor and struck the friend in the arm and leg. The man was taken by helicopter to a hospital 30 miles north in Cleveland, Berarducci said. His condition wasn't immediately known.
From CNN
The most casualties came at the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina, where attendees bolted -- with at least one woman wiping out in the frenetic scene -- when gunfire rang out around 1 p.m., as seen on video captured by CNN affiliate WRAL. Police later explained that a a 36-year-old man from Wilmington, North Carolina, was unfastening the case of his 12-gauge shotgun on a table near the show entrance when it accidentally discharged. The man planned to sell the shotgun at the show. The bird shot ended up injuring three people. One was a sheriff's deputy, who suffered a slight injury to his hand and was treated and released at a local hospital before returning immediately to work, said Joel Keith, chief of police of the North Carolina State Fair. A 54-year-old woman from Benson, North Carolina, was being treated for a wound to her right torso at a local hospital, and a 50-year-old man from Durham, North Carolina, was treated for an injured left hand, Keith told reporters. "I want to emphasize that this is an accident," Keith said.

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