So tragic. Two wonderful men trying to help another and both paid with their lives.
Horrible.
And I hate bill o´reilly for his mean interview with Mr. Kyle. Gee Bill, the man is doing his job and you keep goading him to say he is sorry or that he is a murderer.
Reason #64663 that I hate watching oreilly.

Routh most likely could not have passed the background inquiry to purchase a firearm under current law because of the state of his mental health. In retrospect it was certainly a very bad idea to allow a person with his mental health condition to get anywhere near a firearm. He needed to be treated by trained and experienced mental health professionals.

The whole scenario, as reported, of what led up to these murders seems out of kilter with reality. A guy comes to your home to help you, with a number of people knowing he was there and doing that, and you want to steal his truck and murder him and his friend?

There´s really something wrong with tofay´s military.I understand PTSD and they´re using that as a balnket excuse to cover up dysfunctional vets coming home from war.Nowthey´re saying 25 vets a day are commiting suicide,this is ahuge failure on someone´s part.

Of course the average lieral on the street hates vets and this has to bther them a lot. They can figure out the hatewhen tey just got back from defending the country.

The vets administration is ran by non caring liberals,except for the fine doctors and surgeons. The bureaucracy is cold hearted as hell and treats you like a unit instead of a person.

People up and down the food chain knows Obama doesn´t care about vets issues other than gays or women in combat.This is all hurting readiness and causing low morale in the ranks.

There´s a lot of kids who have enlisted for free college and that´s the wrong reason to join. A lot of them simply don´t have the mental toughness to deal with the horrors of war.Being away from family for long periods of time and several redeployment are very damaging also.

Good Samaritans get abused all the time and this is a worst case of it.

Of course he could have passed a current background check to purchase a firearm. The only people on the ´do not sell´ list for mental health reasons are those who have been involuntarily committed to a psych hospital by a judge. Most people don´t go that route, so most people with serious mental illness are not on the ´do not sell´ list. They can´t even voluntarily get their names put on the ´do not sell´ list, nor can their families recommend their names for the list.

Hate to see this happen, but it underscores the fact that putting a gun in the hand of someone with serious mental illness is not a good idea.

It is important to remember that some people are mentally ill - before they go off to war.