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Originally Posted by Ohio
Little cold hearted and cynical?
But you're the shrink in these parts, so I'll continue your point of view ...
Apparently the shooter felt that this local news paper destroyed his reputation when they published an article about him years ago. He tried to sue them for defamation, but lost. If this preliminary reporting is true, then I would say that the news paper abused their first amendment rights, and then suffered the consequences when this crazy guy abused his second amendment rights.
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And now by abusing his second amendment rights he has justified the newspaper's abuse of their first amendment rights. If he thought that shooting up the paper was going to restore his good name he was greatly mistaken.
The only possible exception is if the newspaper story said that he was not crazy and that the rumors that he was a danger to society and should be locked up were not true. If that was the story that "damaged his reputation" then he has proven them wrong and restored his reputation.