Ron Paul offensive tweet on slain veteran Chris Kyle
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This is disappointing coming from Ron Paul who supposedly gets the largest amount of financial support from Military Veterans.
Interesting.
This is disappointing coming from Ron Paul who supposedly gets the largest amount of financial support from Military Veterans.
Interesting.
This is very surprising, but I'm not sure what sickens me most... his statement, or his defenders claiming "Ron Paul stands by his beliefs for better or worse! Go Paul!" and such crap.
What a fool. It's hard to gauge motivations from a short tweet, but it's hard to see it as coming off any way other than anti-gun or anti-soldier... not sure which, or both.
What a fool. It's hard to gauge motivations from a short tweet, but it's hard to see it as coming off any way other than anti-gun or anti-soldier... not sure which, or both.
Yea it's weird for sure. I mean we could twist it up good all based on preception.
I mean if you are a Swordsman, dying by the Sword would be honorable right?
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Taking someone with severe PTSD to a Gun Range might not be the best idea right?
But.....ahh jeez I don't know what to make of it.
returningliberty
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Ah, crazy Ron Paul strikes again.
I think the point Paul was trying to make is that unfortunately part of the blame for his death was his own mistakes. To my knowledge he had no training on how to treat mental health, then he handed a mentally ill man, one with PTSD no less, a gun in a room full of gunshots. Bad timing, insensitive, that's not something I'm going to get into, but I think that is what he is getting at. I also think his response was from a doctor not a politician. Obviously it wasn't the popular response, but I think most health care providers would agree handing a very mentally ill man a gun, in a situation with sounds similar to a very stressful time in his life is a bad idea.
What bothers me more than Paul's comments are the people working feverously to produce the coolest RIP photo to generate traffic or implying relationships that weren't there. While Paul's statements were poorly timed his offense doesn't involve awesome by association profiteering.
What bothers me more than Paul's comments are the people working feverously to produce the coolest RIP photo to generate traffic or implying relationships that weren't there. While Paul's statements were poorly timed his offense doesn't involve awesome by association profiteering.
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Mayonnaise
Not in the fridge
I can promise you than Ron Paul's old ass did not pull out his iphone and write that.
Not sure, but I'm thinking two things:
1. I'm not too sure about PTSD at a range either.
2. He may be talking about America Living and Dieing by the sword and causing the PTSD to happen, more so than Kyle living by the sword. That actually would line up with RP's beliefs as he thinks we are in too many conflicts.... we should mind our own business.... etc.
Nah I don't see how. I just don't want to be talking about Ron Paul's off-color comment in a thread dedicated to Chris.
I've now split the two to keep the intent of the original thread.
Yea I think Mayo has a point. Did Ron Paul himself type that from his Phone? Hmm eitherway someone in his camp sent it out.