Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner

[SamHarris2012]

26. Never played cops and robbers I guess..

Dorner was animalized from day one. CNN called him an animal. I guess that better than savage which is what the media normally calls people like Dorner. Maybe a thug might have been more correct. The media played it like he was Nat Turner going around killing slave owners. I tend to find that kind of bias all over the media.

Did he murder people? Why yes he did. Did Lanza murder children? Why yes he did. But Lanza was never considered ANIMALISTIC like Dorner. Lanza was mentally ill even though there is no evidence he was mentally ill. All the other mass murderers are mentally ill but Dorner deserved what he got. Folks like Dorner are animalized in the media. Folks like Lanza are humanized in the media. Why is that?

Dorner can't get the benefit of the doubt that he was mentally ill. Why is that? How do we know Dorner didn't suffer from PTSD? The SSGT who killed 16 men, women and children overseas is suffering from PTSD. Or at least that's what he is claiming. No way was Dorner gonna be able to claim insanity. Folks like Dorner don't have that luxury. Its either guilty or not guilty by reason of nothing. Folks like Dorner don't get any other choices.

When some people go on a killing spree folks are quick to jump in and scream for gun safety and mental health reform. When others go on a killing spree folks are quick to condemn the killer.

Why is that?