When guns are around, people get shot

By Michael J.W. Stickings

And people get killed, including famous ex-military people:

A former Navy SEAL known for claiming a record number of sniper killings in Iraq was one of two men shot dead at a Texas gun range, allegedly at the hands of a fellow military veteran, officials say. 

Chris Kyle, the author of the best-selling "American Sniper," and Chad Littlefield, also a veteran, were gunned down Saturday afternoon on the grounds of the expansive Rough Creek Lodge and Resort in Glen Rose, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth, law enforcement officials said. 

About four hours afterward, and 90 miles from where those two men's bodies were found by a hunting guide, authorities arrested suspect Eddie Ray Routh, 25, on a capital murder warrant.

Of course, there's a lot to this story that isn't yet known. But you know we'll continue to be told that guns aren't the problem (even if they make killing a whole lot easier/likely) and that America's troops (in uniform or vets) are the greatest people on the planet and deserving of our hero-worship (many of them are good, courageous people, but a lot of them aren't).

Because America has a crazy gun culture, because jingoism runs rampant while the empire collapses, and because people don't learn a fucking thing.