10-28-2007, 01:37 PM
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It is interesting to note that an arsonist was shot and killed when caught setting a fire and speeding away from the site then failing to halt for a sheriff.
This is a very devastating, emotional, traumatic and freighting situation. However, we need to face the situation with facts, otherwise, we are just as guilty of spreading the fear the arsonist reap upon society. The individual shot and killed by the San Bernardino deputies was not an arsonist, nor is he suspected of being an arsonist, nor was any material found giving rise to any suspicion that arson was suspected. This was an emotionally disturbed individual with a history of problems. Because of the jittery nature of everyone, the need to make sense of all this, the desire to make it end, and a tragic outcome of a police altercation, suddenly everyone is seeing arsonist behind every tree. We’re too intelligent for that.