[steve-b]

Perusing his website, I found some writings along the lines of this quote:

Operation Majority is named after the original Bolshevik party which sparked the Russian Revolution. Bolshevik means the majority. The plan claims that if the American people are ever told of this extraterrestrial presence aliens will destroy the United States. All who have access to the plan or who inadvertently discover the plan are silenced by that warning. They believe in the government and thus believe the extraterrestrial lie. These dupes do not know that the Illuminati are the aliens who plan to destroy the United States of America in any event.

Sounds like he was a total nutjob. Being a total nutjob is not a capital crime, however, and it remains to be seen who is in the wrong here.

[Poohbah]

No, but it might give insight into his state of mind--nutjobs aren't known for rational responses to various stimuli, and he may have sincerely believed that the Sheriff was part of the Grand Monster Conspiracy come to silence him, and decided to take as many with him as he could.

[Yankee]

Damn it steve-b, look at all the posts here calling him a Great American and a hero, and now you have to go and spoil it by showing that he was Art Bell on crack.

You and I are sheeple steve. Don't you know? "We don't know the score". (Right Falcon? Were you at the UFO landing site too?)

It's up to Great Americans like Cooper to save us from ourselves, and the NWO and the little green men. < sarcasm off >