"So I just want to let you know that I love you guys both, and wish it hadn't gone this way.
He is the one holding the firearms and carrying out the attacks. If he didn’t want things to go this way all he has to do is stop. He doesn’t need to make a wish. He needs to take responsibility of his actions since he is the one in control of them.
“There are going to be people coming to the house armed and trigger happy…”
So then are these “people” not unlike himself? Is he not being at least somewhat of a hypocrite by accusing others responding too quick, being too irresponsible or impulsive when using a gun after all the nonsensical death, damage, violence and harm he caused with his own arsenal? Or did he forget he just used his own guns to attack and kill unarmed families who had children and pets with them? He shot at his victims’ doors, barged into their homes and wildly sprayed bullets at them. He shot Senator Hoffman 9 times alone and then his wife 8. Mrs. Hoffman had to shield her daughter with her own person because this villain, IMO, didn’t care who else his bullets struck even if they were the defenseless and scared sons, daughters, spouse or family pets of his targets but not the target themselves. He viewed them as disposable or himself just as entitled to taking their lives as he was when he killed targets as well.
MOO, but there is an irony in that he does not want his actions to result in his own loved ones suffering the same harm and terror he inflicted on his victims even though he gave no such thought or concern to his targets’ family members considering the fact that he still intended to carry out the assassinations public figures in their own homes even if they who had children, spouses and relatives who lived with them. He killed Mark Hortman and Mrs. Hoffman had to shield her daughter’s body with her own to keep the bullets from hurting her. Was his mercy or thought to spare or minimize harm to his target’s family then? Nonexistent. Yet when it comes to being out of control and too triggit is the police he accused of being too trigger happy
Agreed.
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Dad went to war last night”
No, he went on a killing spree. He brutally ended the lives of Senator Hortman, her husband Mark and their family’s dog Gilbert and would have heinously taken three more if it weren’t for the fast-thinking responding officers, a husband and wife both trying to block the front door and a mother’s willingness to sacrifice her life to protect that of her daughter’s.
He wasn’t on the battlefield. 2 opposing sides did not agree to meet and fight, and possibly even die, in the name of ideology, victory or the utter defeat of challengers. Rather, Boelter use his disguise as a police officer to trick and break into the homes of unsuspecting politicians and their family members with the intent of slaughtering them for daring to have political and social values different for his own. That isn’t war. That’s assassination and, IMO, domestic terrorism and/or a hate crime.
He deserves no medal of valor in this life or the next one. What he deserves is to face his victims and their loved ones as he is held accountable to them under the court of law and is justly punished for all he has done to the Hoffmans, Hortmans, the responding and investigating members of law enforcement whose lives were also put on the line as he showed the willingness to also aim and shoot at them, those he stalked and whose homes he also visited in his attempt to further execute his kill list and the multiple impacted communities and cities within the state of Minnesota.
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