why did you shoot them today? there were some shots fired, but how close were you? i was up close to them. i knew that if i did not take his soul, he was coming to take mine. and you can hear eddie ray routh there talking about how he had to take their souls before they took his, and the defense attorneys made reference to that throughout the trial that in that moment whatever happened eddie ray routh felt that chris kyle and chad littlefield were out to get him, and that is why they turned the dun dwsguns on the very people trying to help him. but the problem, don, is that there have been a variety of reasons that didn t make sense of what triggered it and made him carry it out. i also want to read to you, don, one of the quotes, and there is