Quote Originally Posted by bryjcom View Post

The fact that a guy who writes a book detailing and somewhat bragging about killing hundreds of human beings, ends up getting killed in the same manner as he dealt death to his book's characters..... Live by the sword, die by the sword?????
Do you honestly not see the difference between killing a man on a battlefield and murder? Did you just refer to the Iraqi insurgents as "characters"?

And taking a guy who's had two trips to the mental hospital in the last 5 months to the shooting range is gonna have LOTS of people question that decision. Just saying.
Do you know for a fact that Chief Kyle was aware of the underlying issues or was this a "hey my buddy/son/cousin/etc is a vet and he's still kind of fucked up and might have PTSD. Maybe you could talk to him" kind of thing? If you have information the rest of us don't please share.

And just so we're all on the same page here; When I'm talking about PTSD, I'm talking about the DSM-IV-TR definition. Not the "I saw this movie once where a guy had PTSD..." definition. And if you were to get all kinds of crazy and actually LOOK the topic up (wild idea right?), you might find that both exposure therapy and peer counseling are widely used tools to treat people with PTSD. So getting a guy out on the range with like minded people for some trigger therapy and bull sessions would not have "LOTS of people questioning the decision" unless those people were so far out of their lane they were in oncoming traffic.