Kill three people and injurer many others and the media is pretty much quiet. 24 hours later some of the GOP presidential candidates speak with holes in their statements. GOPers are on a non-stop witch hunt against PP and their employees which will bring a parade of pro-lifers thinking their GAWD has given them approval to eliminate PP any means necessary.

Just another homegrown American white terrorist egged on by right wingers, Carly Fiorina, NRA...carry on...nothing new

Are you suggesting that because a particular newspaper article does not contain a complete biography of the person, then any fact absent from the article should be presumed not to exist.

The article doesn't say whether he has two legs and two ears. Perhaps one is missing, but we can't just assume he has two legs or two ears because article doesn't address those facts.

The article doesn't say he has a picture of Mickey Mouse tattooed on his left buttocks either.

What is very clear to me, given the overwhelming evangelical population of Colorado Springs, and their particularly outspoken mayor on the topic of abortion, is that they are being very careful about how they characterize this guy.

Obviously, he wasn't a disgruntled former employee.

Obviously, he wasn't going in there to settle some personal score.

The Freepers have this hilarious theory, based on confused initial reports, that he'd set out to rob a bank and then went to the PP to hide after the bank robbery failed.

I mean, good golly, why this guy would load up for bear and head to a PP facility is the deepest mystery since Amelia Earhardt. After all, what sort of a person would be ill-inclined toward PP? It's a real puzzler.

But, if you are looking for particular facts, then merely observing that one particular newspaper article fails to mention a fact, is not as useful as seeking to determine whether there are any articles which do address the set of facts of interest to you:

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"Ross was born in Charleston and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and his father was a graduate of Charleston's famous public military college, Citadel.

The younger Dear was raised Baptist, Ross told the New York Times. She said he was not a regular church goer, but he was religious.

'He believed wholeheartedly in the Bible,' she said, adding that he was never fixated on the book.

'That's what he always said, he read it cover to cover to cover.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3338082/Cabin-dwelling-recluse-attacked-Planned-Parenthood-happily-married-father-art-dealer-turned-pot-smoking-oddball-sought-sadomasochistic-sex-online-divorce.html

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Nope, not a clue what could have motivated this guy...

So he believes in the Bible and reads it cover to cover. So what --my own father does that and he is a gentle soul.

I am choosing not to read into something into his life.--good or bad at this time.


But carry on.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/robert-dear-suspect-in-colorado-killings-preferred-to-be-left-alone.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region%C2%AEion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region%C2%AEion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&mtrref=www.nytimes.com&_r=0

Everything in that link after the 1st html is tracking the link to you. I always clean up my links in DU (and all posts on the inter tubes).

We'd prefer he left us alone - which he didn't.

PP to shoot it up, call him an extremist terrorist.

There are too many of these people and too much nasty negative bsbeingg put out by RW rangers like Rush and Trump. To much toxic crap for this mindset to focus on and not give a shit about hurting others over.

1.) Passed out anti-Obama literature

2.) Sold prints of Southern plantations (read: was pro-slavery)

3.) Tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist (put metal on your roof so that the government can't spy)

4.) Stashed food in woods (thinks an apocalypse/end-of-times is near)

5.) Spews anti-government anti-Socialist bile (maybe he thought Planned Parenthood is an extension of the 'evil' government), but probably lives off the same Socialist programs he screams against.

Not enough clues?

Apparently he had enough to "buy land" in Colorado and plop an RV on it. Interesting the characterization of "lived off selling..." as if he was setting up a raggedy card table out on the street somewhere trying to sell prints to tourists.

"Buying rights" and "commission(ing) 1000 or so prints" ain't small potatoes.