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7. Muhammed was definitely the manipulator there

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 05:12 PM

Dec 2014

I wasn't trying to use his personal situation as a comparison. Rather, I was trying to use him as an example of how a sniper, if he is clever enough, can commit much mayhem and go for quite a while without being detected.

The film was about an ex-CIA guy whose home was invaded and his family killed in front of him, and the goons who did it were caught, but got off on a technicality. The cops and prosecution were sympathetic, but told him he had to "get over it and move on." He did neither. It was just a film, of course, but some day, some trigger-happy cop is going to wrongly (but deliberately) kill the father, brother, or best friend of a guy like that. One day, a guy like the one in the film could just as easily end up not "getting over it" or "moving on."

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Our homicidal cops are creating the next John Allen Muhammed [View all] DFW Dec 2014 OP

Crazy assholes don't need a reason to be crazy assholes XemaSab Dec 2014 #1

Granted DFW Dec 2014 #2

Hey, it may be distastefull but had to be said. PFunk Dec 2014 #3

The DC sniper was a nutty wife murderer wannabee. MADem Dec 2014 #4

True that on the van. DFW Dec 2014 #5

Never saw that film, but John Muhammad just wanted to kill his ex-wife and get away with it. MADem Dec 2014 #6

Muhammed was definitely the manipulator there DFW Dec 2014 #7

Wasn't "Dirty Harry" on a similar vein, though Harry was supposedly fighting "punks" who "got away MADem Dec 2014 #8