The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history

[Kire]

Washington Post, 7/30/2014:

And then there were his stories — some of which smelled fishy. “There were a lot of things he told people that are really unverifiable,” journalist Michael J. Mooney, who wrote a book on Kyle, told The Washington Post.

Like the one about how he and a bud went down to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and picked off dozens of bad guys. Or the one in which he took on two armed Texans bent on stealing his truck and shot them both dead. Or the one he told about former Minnesota governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura.

[SunSeeker]

1. He may have been a great marksman, but he was a dumbass extraordinaire.

And it got him and his friend killed. Who the fuck takes a guy with severe PTSD to a shooting range? And before that, he defamed Jesse Ventura, which cost Kyle's family $1.8 million in lost inheritance.

[mwrguy]

2. even if true, it is hardly admirable

Being the guy who killed the most people.