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    Greg Abbott declares Feb 2 as Chris Kyle day. Considering declaring Feb 3 as Josh Rambo day.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...hris-kyle-day/
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    jury selection today for his killer Eddie Ray Routh

    http://news.yahoo.com/texas-jury-sel...120525930.html


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    hmmm good use of a selfie stick

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    Stephenville Tx is one of those small Texas towns with most of its retail business closely surrounding the Erath county courthouse square. No doubt the small town will be filled to overflowing with press from around the nation and from overseas. Only a 30 minute drive from my house, I'd like to drive down there and just sit around for a while and observe. No doubt the small cafes and dollar stores will benefit financially but I would venture to speculate that they had their "d'rethers", they would not under these circumstances.

    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Edd...290599791.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bidmor View Post
    Stephenville Tx is one of those small Texas towns with most of its retail business closely surrounding the Erath county courthouse square. No doubt the small town will be filled to overflowing with press from around the nation and from overseas. Only a 30 minute drive from my house, I'd like to drive down there and just sit around for a while and observe. No doubt the small cafes and dollar stores will benefit financially but I would venture to speculate that they had their "d'rethers", they would not under these circumstances.

    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Edd...290599791.html
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    He is no hero.

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    Routh has cleaned up and gained some weight:


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    Kyle was shot five times in the back and once in the head

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...er-begins.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by cash View Post
    Kyle was shot five times in the back and once in the head

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...er-begins.html
    "This dude is straight-up nuts'
    Text Chris Kyle sent to friend Chad Littlefield about Eddie Ray Routh just hours before he shot them dead at a Texas gun range"

    While I commend Kyle and Littlefield for the work they did with soldiers suffering from PTSD, if you had already determined there was an 'issue' with Routh, WTH would you take him to a gun range?
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheWrath of MadelineKahn View Post
    "This dude is straight-up nuts'
    Text Chris Kyle sent to friend Chad Littlefield about Eddie Ray Routh just hours before he shot them dead at a Texas gun range"

    While I commend Kyle and Littlefield for the work they did with soldiers suffering from PTSD, if you had already determined there was an 'issue' with Routh, WTH would you take him to a gun range?
    Kyle was obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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    Routh is guilty

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    I didn't think Routh's team was going to be able to pull off the insanity defense.

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    Guilty. Life in prison with no possibility of parole.

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/24/us/ame...ial/index.html

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    Damn that was fast. Opening arguments on a Monday, conviction a week and a day later.

    Colorado should take lessons regarding their long delayed trial of alleged Aurora theater shooter James Holmes and Boston with the trial for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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    History channel and A&E ran several programs about snipers over the weekend. One of the guys they were interviewing said all people ever ask him is how many people have you killed, not how many people you saved.
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    Kyle's text about Routh being "straight up nuts" is seen in a different light now that transcripts, audio, etc have now been released since sentencing last night.

    Routh's mother never informed Kyle nor Littlefield that her son had multiple trouble with the law and had other issues besides PTSD. In Routh's previous run in's with the law, he always pulled the PTSD card which was ridiculous because, I understand, Routh never saw combat.

    Evidently Kyle and Littlefield were not acquainted with Routh before they took him to the shooting range at, as I understand it, the request from his mother. So now we see that Kyle realized what a nut job Routh is when they were driving to the range, hence Kyle's text. Had Kyle been familiar with Routh, I doubt that trip to the gun range would have ever happened.

    On a related note, Marcus Luttrell, ex Navy SEAL and friend of Kyle's, sent a friendly warning to Routh:
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/c...owing-verdict/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bidmor View Post
    Kyle's text about Routh being "straight up nuts" is seen in a different light now that transcripts, audio, etc have now been released since sentencing last night.

    Routh's mother never informed Kyle nor Littlefield that her son had multiple trouble with the law and had other issues besides PTSD. In Routh's previous run in's with the law, he always pulled the PTSD card which was ridiculous because, I understand, Routh never saw combat.
    A previous article about Routh says he was "a corporal in the Marines and served actively from 2006 to 2010. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and Haiti in 2010."

    http://radaronline.com/exclusives/20...er-chris-kyle/

    He probably thought PTSD sounded better than paranoid schizophrenia.
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    Life in prison without the possibility of parole for a paranoid schizophrenic. Something is wrong with that. The guy belongs in a hospital, not a prison. Hospital for life? Ok.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StewartGilliganGriffin View Post
    Life in prison without the possibility of parole for a paranoid schizophrenic. Something is wrong with that. The guy belongs in a hospital, not a prison. Hospital for life? Ok.
    Then in a few years a 2 or 3 doctors could easily say he's improved enough to be released.

    Routh knew what he had done was wrong. He murdered two men by shooting them in the back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bidmor View Post
    Then in a few years a 2 or 3 doctors could easily say he's improved enough to be released.

    Routh knew what he had done was wrong. He murdered two men by shooting them in the back.
    After the fact he might have known it was wrong. But who is to say wtf he had going on in his head when it happened. I mean he's a paranoid schizophrenic. There is no cure for schizophrenia; meds can make the symptoms better but not a cure. So he wouldn't qualify to be let out. At worst he'd get the Hinkley or Chapman supervised day passes after decades. I'm just saying he doesn't belong in general population prison. And prison's are chock FULL of these sick people.... then again if as a society we made access to psychiatric care easier to access and available for everyone regardless of ability to pay perhaps these people could get the help they needed long before it got to the point of tragedy. Not that losing this Kyle POS psychopath is a loss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bidmor View Post
    Then in a few years a 2 or 3 doctors could easily say he's improved enough to be released.

    Routh knew what he had done was wrong. He murdered two men by shooting them in the back.
    He will die in prison. Once the other inmates get ahold of him, he will wish it will be sooner rather than later.
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    Routh's mother on Dr. Phil - she put Kyle in contact with Routh - a whole lot of guilt here.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6879932.html

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    The Jesse Ventura case has been overturned on appeal

    http://www.startribune.com/court-ove...ard/382684251/

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