As a general rule, I don't believe that gun owners are mentally troubled, but when there are signs.. [View all]

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This had to do with the the guy in Alabama who killed a school bus driver to drag a kid off the bus and take him to an underground bunker, where he's in day five of a stand-off.

Alabama bunker standoff leaves a town baffled
Jimmy Lee Dykes, who police say shot a bus driver and took a 5-year-old boy into a bunker, has aired no specific grievance. As they wait for a resolution, neighbors struggle to understand

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People who know Dykes describe him as an odd and menacing presence in the neighborhood — digging strange holes in his yard, beating dogs — but they had no answers as to his motives.

"We call him Mean Man," said Ronda Wilbur, who lives across the street from Dykes. "He killed my dog with a lead pipe."

She said Dykes' troubles in the neighborhood started as soon as he arrived in his travel trailer several years ago. He removed another neighbor's mailbox, she said, and replaced it with his own. By day he would sit in a deer-hunting stand overlooking the road, glaring at children and intimidating parents.

Wilbur said her husband once had words with Dykes. "He told my husband he wouldn't just K-I-L-L the D-O-G-S," she said. She spelled words, because her 7-year-old granddaughter, Ava, clung to her legs. "He would do the P-E-O-P-L-E too, especially the K-I-D-S."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/la-na-alabama-bunker-20130203,0,2378554.story