After his return from the war, Kyle started a non-profit to help returning vets assimilate back into civilian life. In that capacity he took a troubled PTSD vet to a shooting range. That vet turned the gun on Chris and ended his life.
A story of the killing can be found here.
Immediately portions of the blogosphere and left-leaning sites erupted with outright glee at this murder. Posters over at Huffington Post had a field day tying this murder to the gun debate, and trying to out-droll each other. I won't link to their pages because they're repugnant. If you wish to see that garbage for yourself, go look, but I'll recap some of the main memes:
- He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
- What irony
- This is karma
I'd like to respond to each of these.
- Indeed, those that live by the sword do die by the sword. And those that live by their blind ideology to the point of celebrating a hero's death to make political point and garner comment room "cred" are pigs.
- Ironic. Want to know what is ironic? Ironic is typing in "LOL" and "#irony" in your Twitter feed, safe in the comfort of the 1st Amendment, about a murdered soldier - a man who was sworn to uphold and protect the constitution. That is freaking irony, pal.
- If there is a concept of payback delivered by the universe, one can only hope that it has very special plans for those that laugh at and ridicule a dead hero. That'd be a cold dish of karma I'd really like to see delivered.
We used to respect and honor our fallen soldiers. Cheering and laughing about their death simply clarifies how absolutely polluted people have become.
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