AMERICAN SNIPER SHOT DEAD BY POT HEAD

Eddie Ray Routh and his uncle smoked “strong” pot together shortly before he killed Chris Kyle

BarkGrowlBite | February 14, 2015

Testimony in a Stephenville, Texas courtroom Friday, revealed that Eddie Ray Routh smoked pot shortly before he killed Chris Kyle. Testifying during Routh’s murder trial, his uncle James Watson told a jury that he and his nephew smoked “strong” pot together just before Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield picked Routh up on that fateful trip to a firing range. Watson said the marijuana was strong, and his “buzz” lasted around three hours.

After killing Kyle and Littlefield, Routh contacted Watson and told him “He thought people were out to get him.”

Also on Friday, Belton police officer Gene Cole testified that when he was an Erath County deputy sheriff, he heard Routh say in jail, "I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me. I was just riding in the backseat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me.”

When the police stopped Routh in Kyle’s pickup truck, a cop’s body camera recorded the killer mentioning voodoo, hell and the apocalypse, and saying, "I don't know if I'm going insane."

Routh thought people were out to get him, which is typical of the paranoia experienced by drug users, in this case by a pot head. And his statement that nobody would talk to him was another symptom of paranoia.

Routh’s attorneys claim that PTSD led the former Marine to kill Kyle and Littlefield. I say horseshit to that. His uncle testified that after he and his nephew ended their pot smoking session, he remained high for another three hours. It stands to reason that Routh remained high for a similar period of time, so that he would have been under the influence of marijuana at the time of the killings. And when he mentioned voodoo, hell, the apocalypse, and going insane, those were the ramblings of a man with his mind altered by pot.

The proponents of pot will say that I am full of shit and that marijuana in no way played any part in the killing of the American sniper. I’m probably tilting at windmills in my continuing opposition to the legalization of marijuana, but I am going to take every opportunity to expose the proponents of pot for the liars they are!

And they keep saying that smoking pot is harmless. Yeah, right. And pigs can fly.