If she's ever in that bar she does.

 

They say it takes two days for news to reach Ky. I'll bet it's four days for certain parts of west Texas.

They say it takes two days for news to reach Ky. I'll bet it's four days for certain parts of west Texas.

My Grandma lived out her later years in Pecos Co. TX. You had to drive an hour to get groceries. I you drive between El Paso and San Antonio on I-10 it is approximately 550 miles. The biggest places you pass through on the way are Kerrville which is about 22,000 and Ft. Stockton which is about 8,500. To say that parts of west Texas are remote is putting it mildly.

Guilty 2 counts of capital murder.

I read online life without parole for him.

I read online life without parole for him.

 

That's what I saw as well. Did they not go for the death penalty?

It's a shame in all of this that anyone died, and this killer indeed needs to be put away to avoid him killing anyone else.

 

Does anyone have an understanding as to what the line of thinking was to take a guy with known serious issues, who you and your friend were just texting to each other earlier about as being "nuts", to a shooting range and take the chance of being around him while he's holding a loaded weapon?

 

I understand that they were trying to help him with his post military issues, but how was it worth chancing putting a loaded weapon into the hands of an unstable person?

 

I'm thinking that a chill day sitting next to a calm lake having some pal chat would've made much more sense under the circumstances.

 

I'm not an authority on any such topics as the military or weapons, and can't even say I get what gets people off in pulling a trigger time and again at a shooting range, but to each their own, but as a complete outsider, taking him to a shooting range just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

I guess hindsight is 20/20, and it did prove to be a disastrous idea, but I'm just thinking that if I had any input on the matter previous to the horror going down, I would have knee-jerkingly advised against it, and suggested a calm alternative.

It's a shame in all of this that anyone died, and this killer indeed needs to be put away to avoid him killing anyone else.

 

Does anyone have an understanding as to what the line of thinking was to take a guy with known serious issues, who you and your friend were just texting to each other earlier about as being "nuts", to a shooting range and take the chance of being around him while he's holding a loaded weapon?

 

I understand that they were trying to help him with his post military issues, but how was it worth chancing putting a loaded weapon into the hands of an unstable person?

 

I'm thinking that a chill day sitting next to a calm lake having some pal chat would've made much more sense under the circumstances.

 

I'm not an authority on any such topics as the military or weapons, and can't even say I get what gets people off in pulling a trigger time and again at a shooting range, but to each their own, but as a complete outsider, taking him to a shooting range just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

I guess hindsight is 20/20, and it did prove to be a disastrous idea, but I'm just thinking that if I had any input on the matter previous to the horror going down, I would have knee-jerkingly advised against it, and suggested a calm alternative.

 

I totally agree with what you are saying here, but I also see why he did what he did. He grew up around hunting and being outdoors, loved to do it. After he came back from the military it was kind of "his thing" to take veterans to a shooting range and talk with them and try to help. While it wasn't the brightest idea to take such a troubled young man to a gun range, he probably took others who were really struggling with life after the war to that same gun range and nothing negative ever happened.

 

Just my two cents, knowing and reading about how much he loved to shoot guns.

I don't think they had ever met him before that day. I think the gun he used was one he brought with him not one that brought and would have kept a closer eye on.

Edited February 25, 201511 yr by Jumper_Dad
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I agree with B-Ball-fan.

It seems to me if someone is suffering from post-war trauma/psychological problems a shooting range, guns, and loud noises is the last thing one would want to expose them to.

Yeah, if someone has PTSD, I'm not taking them there regardless of what they grew up doing.

 

I've seen a guy go into almost a PTSD episode/flashback/something when a boat back fired on a lake. It's a scary and weird thing, and not something I would take a chance with.

 

Sad all the way around. And the comments made by the victims families were equally sad, to me.