I agree that if the guy was going nuts it was after he got out of the military and not from PTSD.
My thing is that I still do not see two battle hardened security experts even entertaining taking a Schizoid who already threatened to kill people out on a gun range with a loaded weapon. It just makes no sense. Fishing maybe, hiking, backpacking, horseback riding that kind of stuff.
If some family you didn’t know called you and told you that their son was suffering from Schizophrenic paranoia and had been locked up once or twice already for threatening to kill himself and others would you say “Hey lets take him to the gun range?” Of course you wouldn’t.
The whole thing just does not add up. It just feels weird.
Maybe a better picture will come out at the trial.
He and his mother claimed he had PTSD, and Kyle had set up an organization to help veterans with PTSD.
“Kyle paired with FITCO Cares Foundation, a nonprofit organization which created the Heroes Project to provide free in-home fitness equipment, individualized programs, personal training, and life-coaching to in-need veterans with disabilities, Gold Star families, or those suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.”
And, oddly enough, while the VA seems to think that veterans with PTSD should be disarmed, they are not generally considered a threat to others with guns. If anything, they might be suicidal. But if they are not suicidal, firing guns at a range might be therapeutic.
Not so with paranoid schizophrenics, however.