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lobster
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Apr 7, 2016
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this knife looks bad and the Chris Kyle name just seems like a marketing idea to capitalize on the movie. I don't know anything about the man and never watched the movie or read his book, but the general consensus is he was not a great person, inflated or made up a lot of the stories he told and wrote about. People like Joe Rogan have tried to reason why he might have lied about killing more people than he did, killing black people during Katrina, and punching Jessie Ventura (which never happened), and the only rational that can be concluded is that he was doing it to make his story better to sell more books, or he just lied for internal psychological reason--be it PTSD, stress, coping or whatever. The fact that he did in fact kill people as a a sniper should have been enough to sell his book and satisfy the ego, there's no good justification for inflating those numbers or claiming (lying) he killed americans during katrina and punched ventura in the face like some tough guy. Even if he did suffer the trauma of war, I don't see other veterans lying about the stuff they did as a "coping mechanism." I will be surprised if this drop reaches 4.
Runcibleman
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Apr 7, 2016
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lobsterThe worst thing you can accuse him of is lying about killing people. He didn't shoot anyone during Katrina as the U.S. government didn't send SEALs to shoot looters.
lobster
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Apr 7, 2016
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RunciblemanI never said the SEALs were sent to katrina to kill looters. Chris Kyle said that he did this on his own as a civilian. He claimed to have killed 30 looters and killed two other people who tried to car jack him. I don't think there is any proof he killed anyone on american soil as he claims to have. I agree with you that he probably did not shoot anyone during Katrina--but he claims he did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/30/the-complicated-but-unveriable-legacy-of-chris-kyle-the-deadliest-sniper-in-american-history/
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