Don’t Mythologize Christopher Dorner

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67. I don't think it's about cheering Dorner

Something went very wrong for this guy somewhere. He had to have been mentally ill, at least I don't consider anyone who does these kinds of things "normal". Does that mean it was ok for him to murder? Of course not. A lot of people get fired wrongly and do not go to this length, but something went terribly wrong for him. I don't know if he was on any meds for what he called "severe depression" or he was left untreated.

Now after this happened, I listened to several different scanner feeds. When one reported a single gun shot, then another was a cop that said there was blood spatter on the wall, then I remembered he said he wouldn't be taken alive - I did feel he shot himself and didn't actually burn to death. Come to find out he did shoot himself (I guess, I heard there was a sniper there - whether that is true is anyone's guess). However we didn't know that as viewers of the situation and it looked like a lynching. It sounded like revenge when they were yelling to use the burners. It did not feel like a conventional method when dealing with people like Dorner. I couldn't help feel a little uncomfortable with it all.

However I'm a certain as I can be that Dorner was never going to let them kill him, I think he wanted to do it himself.

This whole thing is a tragedy for all involved. The innocents he killed, the families of those he killed, his family and yes, for him too. I don't know what he was like before, whether he was a "good guy" or not. Did the LAPD drive him to do this or was he always unbalanced? I don't know.

I always believe that people like Dorner should be taken alive IF possible. However I don't think that was what Dorner actually wanted.

He was WRONG for dealing with it the way he did. Whether it's Dorner, Lanza or anyone else who does these things, to me these people were not playing with a full deck even if a court of law would not recognize them as insane if they lived to see a trial. I just wish we were better equipped to deal with mental illness.