pistol at a gun range just outside fort worth saturday. within of those two men, decorated iraq war vet, chris kyle, who by all accounts may have been the most deadly sniper in the history of the u.s. military, logging some 160 kills while he was in iraq. police say the shooting police say after the shooting, he drove to his sister s man when he confessed to killing both men. sheriff s officials say at this point they do not have a motive, but the suspect is unemployed and may have been suffering from a form of mental illness. he s now being held on a $3 million bond. we are expecting to get more from police soon. when that does happen, we will pass on any new information when we get it. we re also keeping a close watch on the hostage situation in alabama that s been going on since tuesday now. police say a vietnam vet killed a school bus driver and has been holding a 5-year-old boy named ethan hostage inside an underground bunker. nbc s gabe gutierrez is in midland city, alabama,
developing story we ve been following in texas. a former navy s.e.a.l. shot and killed at a gun range southwest of ft. worth. chris kyle, a man described as the most lethal sniper in u.s. history was killed, along with a close friend on saturday. the suspect has been identified as 25-year-old eddie ray rutha, a corporal in the marine corps himself. now in custody. charged with two counts of capital murder, we have learned from police there, the semi automatic handgun used to kill kyle and his friend was found at the suspect s home. he had come to the range with kyle and his friend. after the shootings, ralph drove to his sister s house and admitted what he had done, but gave no hint as to why he did it. kyle served four tours of duty in iraq and wrote the best-selling book called american sniper. he also started a nonprofit to help injured and disabled
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not just about the assault weapons ban which is very important, but it s about the mental health piece. it s about the criminal piece, about respecting the fact that there are a lot of people out there, the vast majority are law-abiding citizens that own guns and part of the conversation we ve not had, enforcing the current gun laws, i don t want to dismiss this, say it s all about that. but what i m saying, it needs to be a multifaceted conversation that will happen at the local level. the nra s wayne la pierre appeared on fox news sunday. and he the moderator chris wallace got into it over background checks, take a listen. i wish it would happen. we re all for it, but it s not. you are for universal background checks? universal. that s what president obama is now putting forward, and let me talk about that. it s a fraud to call it universal. it s never going to be universal. the criminals aren t going to comply with it. what say you to that, chris?
happy sunday. happy sunday. chris, are you sitting a few feet away. a rare trick. your former boss, senator manchin, comes from a rural, gun-friegun friendly state. where do rural democrats stand on strength new england g strengthening gun laws in this country? it s a tough issue. they look at them from a cultural perspective, grown up with them, gone hunting, much more sensitive than urban democrats who don t have the same kind of experience. that being said, you know, the newtown massacre changed everything for everybody. did it? i think so. it seemed like it did, you know, a few days and a few weeks after, but now it seems perhaps. the question is, and this is where i think i think people will be disappointed, how far do we go, and i think there is some momentum, and i put that in quotation marks, toward criminal background checks, everyone