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Instead of investing in 3 guns, he should have payed his child support.
He also should have considered getting a second job.

Instead of investing in 3 guns, he should have payed his child support. He also should have considered getting a second job.

How do you know?

Instead of investing in 3 guns, he should have payed his child support. He also should have considered getting a second job.

Spoken like someone who has never been on the receiving end of the divorce industry. The "getting a second job" deal is not always the common sense move that it was in years gone by. Depending on how one-sided the laws are in any given state, that can get even further behind. In my state, if your income goes up (like from a second job) more than 9%, then the support industry can raise your payments. Then you have one of two unpleasant choices...get a lawyer and contest the increase, or have your payments raised. The lawyer option will set you back AT LEAST $1000. If you go along with the increase, you're on the hook for the higher payments even if you can't work the 2nd job anymore or don't want to work 60 hours a week every week for the next 15 years. In order to get them lowered, you're back at the $1000 lawyer option, and there is no assurance that the judge will approve your request. If you happen to be on the cusp of putting yourself into a higher tax bracket with the extra income from the second job, you're hosed even worse for wanting to make a little extra to make ends meet. If it puts you over the $27,000 AGI level, then you're looking at 27% federal, 7.5% social security and medicare, state and local income taxes combined could be something like 8% depending on where you live and work. Add on another 20% for child support, and that leaves somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 cents for every dollar you make being all yours. Well, it costs money to get to the second job, so you have to figure that in too.

I don't know what this guys situation is, but it's pretty obvious that the police involved in this are at best incompitant, or at the worst, corrupt, as demostrated by their "3 shots to kill 5 deputies" fuzzy math. In any event, shooting at a swat team is not the smartest move someone can make. No one here has walked a mile in this guys shoes, so I'll just sum up his actions by saying that it doesn't require a degree from the school of the bleeding-obvious to think that he probably made a poor choice in who he decided to take a stand against.

Instead of investing in 3 guns, he should have payed his child support. He also should have considered getting a second job.

I wonder how much child support he will be sending from prison?