[dirtboy]

A lot of people are interested in labeling Dorner as a full blown psychopath, but fact is that he wasn't.

Yeah, he was obviously just a half-hearted psychopath.

Who had a beef with the LAPD but ended up killing a sherrif's deputy in another jurisdiction.

BTW, Dorner's own manifesto said he would not be taken alive. Kinda hard to negotiate with someone like that.

[Prole]

See, that's where we disagree. If the cops had ceased fire on the cabin and pulled back, Dorner would have most likely stopped firing to conserve his ammo. He made it clear that he does not fire or kill indiscriminately. Cordoning off the area and sweeping the airspace with helicopters would have been my solution, in addition to the use of a negotiator. But laying waste to the cabin with fires and weapons would not have been my immediate choice, especially given the shockwave effect that kind of crap has on the Country.

Just because he wrote something in his manifesto a week ago, doesn't necessarily mean that he wants to die in a hail of gunfire today. It's clear he wasn't interested in killing everyone in his path, as evidenced by the people he refused to kill.

Excuse me for being the one who is willing to consider all of this, and try to negotiate with a military and police serviceman before "burning the mother******" as these "professional" folks so clearly put it.