By now you've heard about the freak who murdered two police officers and three city officials in Kirkwood, MO. As background, apparently the shooter, Charles Thornton, owned a business and had been repeatedly cited for illegally parking commercial vehicles and had been arrested for disrupting previous city meetings. His lawsuit against the city following those arrests was dismissed.

There's an article in the St. Louis paper about reactions to the massacre. With the caveat that media promotes controversy to boost ratings/readership, it's still pretty clear that some people have very warped perceptions of right and wrong in the world. For example, this sick and twisted individual:

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"To me, Charles Thornton is a hero," said Ben Gordon of Webster Groves. "He opened a business. He went to court, but the system failed him. … We are sorry, we grieve, but (Kirkwood officials) share in this responsibility."
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Here's the entire article.

His mother, from another article:

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In an interview with a local television station, Mr. Thornton’s mother said that Kirkwood officials had kept after her son, “giving him tickets for everything they could.”

She said she never suspected that her son would be violent but described the events as “an act of God, just like a storm or a tornado.”
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Good God. I literally became sick to my stomach after reading that. This man shot five innocent and unarmed people in the head and would have killed more had responding officers not shot him dead. His family has also refused to condemn his actions. WTF are these people thinking?