Deadly Sniper thesnuggler

[Tzan]

Chris Kyle:
" Yo Dawg! I heard you have PTSD.
So I put a gun in your gun hand,
so you can shoot me with a gun,
while I help you recover from shooting guns. "

[aoffan23]

I had the same general train of thought when I heard the news story. It sounded like another story of someone going crazy and where no one could do anything to stop him but... then I heard that part. I'm sure there's got to be some sort of benefit to taking the pent-up stress out on targets, but... I don't know. I'm not even going to try to pretend I know anything about it.

[Tzan]

I just noticed I forgot the "Yo Dawg!".

[Natalya]

Chris Kyle:
" Yo Dawg! I heard you have PTSD.
So I put a gun in your gun hand,
so you can shoot me with a gun,
while I help you recover from shooting guns. "

Is it possible to win a thread in OP? Because I think that's what just happened.

[Tzan]

[Warhead]

shoot the snuggler

[Tzan]

But he is a Therapist.

[Warhead]

...ok... so, shoot him and ask him how he feels.

[Tzan]

I think that's what happened that day

[Warhead]

I had been taking the utter piss...er... I mean arguing with a ton of retar... er... gun lobby supporters on FB after the latest school shootings, man those red neck right wing wank stains get hot and bothered about something so phalic. I'd love to see what they had to say about this shooting. Shit, I'd recomend joining a rifle club just so you could shoot more of these idiots.

[Keldoclock]

I'd love to see what they had to say about this shooting.

The basic idea of going to a shooting range to relieve stress is nothing unusual, I find the experience to be very cathartic, especially if you have some friends around so you can all shoot each other's guns and have the standard pissing contests about who is a better marksman.

Here's some quotes from a gun nut forum thread about this shooting

His book has been in my "will read soon" queue for a while now.

R.I.P soldier

Mine too.


This is so incredibly sad. That poor loving family. Dude survives BUD/S, all the training to become a SEAL, four fucking tours in Iraq during some of the bloodiest years, and he's killed by some hosed in the head vet who he's trying to help.

Fuck.

There are lots of vets with PTSD that aren't a threat to anyone. I've read before about veterans groups using shooting or hunting as a way to decompress or rebuild confidence. If we stigmatize all vets with PTSD as dangerous or make them prohibited possessors more just wont seek help at all.

An excerpt from chris kyle's book, posted by "gokmah"

“I always seemed more vulnerable at home. After every deployment, something would happen to me, usually during training. I broke a toe, a finger, all sorts of little injuries. Overseas, on deployment, in the war, I seemed invincible.”

I think that much of the stress from PSTD is not from actually being shot at, or combat itself- this in and of itself is a relatively rare thing, I think its more a long-building stress knowing that every time you drive down a road you might die, or that a shell might hit your barracks while you sleep, the fear that just walking around outside will lead to someone shooting you from a window...