Y’all have been sending links to the reports that Eddie Routh, the fellow who shot and killed Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield over a year ago, hasn’t served in a position in the Marine Corps that would have lent itself to the theory presented by his defense attorney that Routh suffers from PTS. I agree and I said as much when this case presented itself. It’s old news. He was a unit armorer and he never left the wire. <\/p>\n
Routh’s defense team doesn’t deny that he killed the two. I just watched a clip from his lawyer’s opening remarks and he said that Routh was so screwed up that he didn’t know that he’d done anything wrong. Well, that’s just BS. <\/p>\n
In his phone call to his sister during his getaway, Routh told her that he’d murdered the two because he wanted Kyle’s truck. PTS doesn’t make people covet their neighbor’s truck. The lawyer continued that Routh thought that if he didn’t kill the other two, they would kill him – more BS. PTS doesn’t make you paranoid. You know what does make a person paranoid? Illegal drug abuse.<\/p>\n
The folks at WarFighters<\/a> talked to his recruiter, who claims that Routh came from a dysfunctional environment in which drug abuse was very common and his enlistment in the Marines didn’t change that. <\/p>\n The only people who blame their bad behavior on Post Traumatic Stress are people who don’t have PTS. Routh is an evil criminal who hides behind his military service. Neither him nor his lawyer are not doing real veterans with real PTS any favors with their defense of Routh’s behavior.<\/p>\n