Bite The Bullet!

Reality star Chris Kyle, former Navy seal and best selling writer was gunned down.

Writer of the bestseller book American Sniper was gunned down at a place he felt most comfort, his local shooting range. Chris Kyle, famed ex-Navy Seal sniper was helping a returning soldier at the firing range and he and another man were gunned down.

Born in Odessa, Texas, Kyle was the son of a Sunday school teacher and a deacon. His father bought him his first gun at 8 years old, a bolt-action .30-06 Springfield rifle, and later a shotgun, with which they hunted pheasant, quail, and deer.



Kyle attended Tarleton State University in the early 1990s, where he studied Ranch Management. After school, Kyle became a professional bronco rodeo rider, but his profession ended abruptly when he severely injured his arm. After his arm healed, he went to a military recruiting office, interested in joining the United States Marine Corps. He went to BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL school) and joined the United States Navy in 1999.

Assigned to SEAL Team 3, Sniper Element Charlie platoon within the Naval Special Warfare Command, and with over four tours of duty, Kyle served in every major battle of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

His first long-range kill shot was taken during the initial invasion, when he shot a woman approaching a group of US Marines with a hand grenade in her hand. As ordered, he opened fire, killing the woman before she could attack.

For his deadly track record as a marksman during his deployment to Ramadi, the insurgents named him Al-Shaitan Ramad (English The Devil of Rahmadi), and put a $20,000 bounty on his head that was later increased to $80,000.

In 2008 outside Sadr City, he made his longest successful shot, after he spotted an insurgent with a rocket launcher near a U.S. Army convoy at a range of 2,100 yards (1.2 mi). He fired a shot from his Lapua Magnum PGM .338 rifle, killing the insurgent as told in his book American Sniper.

Trained to kill, Kyle served with the Naval Command Sniper Team.

During four tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle was shot twice and caught up in six separate IED explosions.

Kyle was a hero of the conservative movement. Already conservatives are throwing around conspiracy theories about the president being involved in the murder of this man.

Knowing how far they'll go to find someone who's probably relishing in the death of Kyle, conservatives race to the social networks to whine about how "evil and heartless" these people are!

They're right, there are some who are evil and heartless humans out there who are just happy to see a rival gone! It's human nature, it plays on both sides of the fence!

But the question here is how did it happen? The person who shot him was 25 year old former Marine returning from Afghanistan with post traumatic stress disorder. The individual (basically with mental issues) operating a firearm! Isn't this constantly an issue with gun control advocates?


And to make it worse, the person Eddie Ray Routh took his truck and led the police on a brief chase before he was going to be caught. I am guessing he was plotting on taking his own life or inducing more harm by vehicle.

Kyle left the US Navy in 2009, and moved to Mid-Texas with his wife, Taya, and two children. He ran Craft International, which provides military, law enforcement, and civilian training, as well as private security and protection until his death.

In 2012, Harper Collins released Kyle's autobiographical book American Sniper.

Kyle also paired with FITCO Cares Foundation, a non-profit organization which created the Heroes Project to provide free in-home fitness equipment, individualized programs, personal training, and life-coaching to in-need veterans with disabilities, Gold Star families, or those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

While on the media circuit he bragged about getting into a confrontation with reality star Jesse Ventura.

While on Opie & Anthony's, Kyle boasted that he called out the Ventura on bad mouthing Navy Seals.

Ventura is a conspiracy kook who rose to fame as a World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment) wrestler. He went on to serve one term as Minnesota governor. He promotes himself as "The Body" and writes books on conspiracies and appears on talk radio agitators Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, Stephanie Miller, Glenn Beck and Alan Colmes shows frequently.

Kyle was killed February 2, 2013 at the Rough Creek Lodge shooting range in Erath County, Texas.

Washed up politician Sarah Palin shared some words for the slained celebrity.

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

To have such tragedies happen is a damn shame. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Chris Kyle and the other individual lost in this senseless tragedy.

Later we'll deal with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace interviewing retired Air Force captain and NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of shooting survivor Gabrielle Giffords, a former congressowman for a segment on gun control.

Wallace also interviewed NRA chief spokesman Wayne LaPierre on the issue with gun control.