Sorry to have been away from the blog so long, but from the afternoon of Sunday, February 3 to the early morning hours of Saturday, February 9, I was involved in the premeditated murder trial of an armed citizen who killed a man who violently attacked him. On Friday, the jury came in with a complete acquittal.\u00a0 At least one happy ending for an otherwise ugly week.<\/p>\n
On the larger front, news was much grimmer.\u00a0 We learned that the madman who murdered Navy SEAL hero Chris Kyle and another man, both of whom were trying to help the slayer cope with PTSD, had been set loose on society after threatening murder and suicide last September. In the rush to symbolically pillory gun owners, media and legislators largely ignore the real problem: homicidal maniacs who need to be institutionalized, and aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n
At this writing, Christopher Dorner remains at large. This extremely dangerous fugitive, who claims to be very heavily armed, is a fascinating study of good, evil, and madness.\u00a0 His Facebook artifacts show he had a lot of ego investment in being a member of two forces of good, the United States Navy and the Los Angeles Police Department.\u00a0 Feeling wronged when he failed at both, he embarked on a murder spree that is the very antithesis of the heroes he identified with.\u00a0 Once a designated, uniformed protector of the innocent, he now murdered two helpless people: the daughter of a cop he didn\u2019t think had done enough for him, and her fianc\u00e9. Nothing less than absolute evil. He then opened fire on police officers from cowardly ambush, murdering one, and fled when they returned fire. Dorner\u2019s actions set the stage for a tragic mistaken identity shooting subsequently by police.<\/p>\n
Dorner sent a \u201cmanifesto\u201d to CNN, damning the private ownership of AR15 rifles, \u201chigh capacity\u201d magazines and the like, and praising Piers Morgan and the White House for their anti-gun efforts, while committing murder with the same type of weapons. He apparently feels his hurt feelings justify the murder of those who\u2019ve done him no harm, and that of course is madness, as seen through the prism of common sense if not through that of the M\u2019Naghten precedent.<\/p>\n
But then, the same hypocrisy \u2013 take things away from law-abiding citizens, because monsters use them to murder those self-same law-abiding citizens \u2013 is shared by supposedly sane people in positions of power.\u00a0 I\u2019m told that some of the media have soft-pedaled the spree-killer\u2019s praise for the anti-gunners, but you can read the whole manifesto HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dorner\u2019s murderous spree is unlikely to end well.\u00a0 I see a possibility, though, that he\u2019ll turn\u00a0himself in to one of his heroes, perhaps Piers Morgan; there\u2019s enough narcissism in his \u201cmanifesto\u201d that he might want to live to praise himself longer and more publicly, like the recent mass-murderer in Norway, instead of dying in a sick \u201cblaze of glory.\u201d\u00a0 Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry to have been away from the blog so long, but from the afternoon of Sunday, February 3 to the early morning hours of Saturday, February 9, I was involved in the premeditated murder trial of an armed citizen who killed a man who violently attacked him. On Friday, the jury came in with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}