{"id":3328,"date":"2015-11-29T19:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2015-11-29T19:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:06:01","slug":"why-did-dear-shoot-we-may-never-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/11\/why-did-dear-shoot-we-may-never-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Why did Dear shoot? We may never know."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Information is beginning to make its way around the internet about Robert Lewis Dear, who killed three in and around a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs on Friday. \u00a0According to news reports, such as NBC News<\/a>, he moved to Colorado last year from North Carolina, where he lived in a shack in the woods, unabomber-style, with no electricity or running water. \u00a0The site reports,<\/p>\n

James Russell, who lived near Dear in the North Carolina mountains, said if Dear did make conversation \u201cnothing with him was very cognitive.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

two law enforcement officials told NBC News on Saturday that upon questioning, Dear made a comment about \u201cno more baby parts\u201d in an apparent reference to Planned Parenthood. The officials stressed that Dear\u2019s comments were made amidst a flurry of \u201crantings\u201d that also included statements about politics and President Barack Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Planned Parenthood is, of course, using those four words to insist that Dear\u2019s objective was to terrorize women at the clinic, and made evident a deep and enduring threat to women\u2019s health. \u00a0According to Reuters<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that news reports that the gunman who attacked its Colorado health clinic had uttered \u201cno more baby parts\u201d during his arrest showed that the suspect was motivated by an anti-abortion agenda.<\/p>\n

The remark attributed to suspect Robert Lewis Dear was an apparent reference to Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion activities and its role in delivering fetal tissue to medical researchers, a hot button issue in the 2016 race for the presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe now know the man responsible for the tragic shooting at PP\u2019s health center in Colorado was motivated by opposition to safe and legal abortion,\u201d the organization said on Twitter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Accordingly, they\u2019re seeking to use this shooting to discredit abortion opponents, place the blame on them, and muzzling them, demanding that they cease voicing any objections to abortion.<\/p>\n

Was Dear actually motivated by opposition to abortion? \u00a0Initial reports are that the shooting started outside the clinic, at an intersection with a bank and other businesses. \u00a0What set him off? \u00a0Was there even an actual, identifiable cause?<\/p>\n

Thinking about this let me to see what I could find in the way of news about the Chapel Hill shooter<\/a>, from back in February. \u00a0(FYI, I wrote about this here, about reports in general<\/a>, and here, on Hick\u2019s anger<\/a>.) \u00a0Remember? \u00a0A perpetually-angry, never-successful middle-aged white man shot his three Muslim neighbors. \u00a0Islamophobia-phobia kicked into high gear, though the officially-attributed motive was a parking-spot dispute.<\/p>\n

That was back in February. \u00a0Lots of speculation, then, well, nothing. \u00a0There are virtually no updates out there on the internet, since the initial stories subsequent to the shooting. \u00a0On April 6th, he was found eligible for the death penalty by a court ruling (see CNN<\/a>, for instance). \u00a0On May 6th, the Charlotte paper <\/a>reported that the medical examiner\u2019s autopsy report was released. \u00a0On September 9, the local ABC station<\/a> reported that the FBI had completed its report and forwarded it to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office to determine whether hate crime charges were warranted. \u00a0But that\u2019s it. \u00a0Perhaps this is just more evidence that the wheels of justice move too slowly; perhaps the desire to charge him with a hate crime has meant more bureaucracy getting in the way of starting the trial. \u00a0Or perhaps this means that the news cycle has moved on. \u00a0And that leaves me wondering if we\u2019ll ever know what motivated Dear, or whether he was mentally sound enough to even meaningfully speak of \u201cmotivation\u201d in the first place.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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