{"id":60369,"date":"2015-06-15T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60369"},"modified":"2015-06-15T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T15:21:08","slug":"whitfield-dallas-gunman-wasnt-very-courageous-and-brave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60369","title":{"rendered":"Whitfield: Dallas gunman wasn&#8217;t &#8220;very courageous and brave&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=60370\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/james-boulware-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"james-boulware\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/james-boulware-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/james-boulware-263x333.jpg 263w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/james-boulware.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t talk about James Boulware this weekend. Boulware was that fellow in Dallas who built himself an armored van, made himself a scad of bombs and then attacked a Dallas police station with some firearms. This was a great opportunity for the cable news folks to run their mouths constantly without having to use their brains. Fredericka Whitfield on CNN did just that when she referred to the act as &#8220;very courageous and brave&#8221;;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xFmNMTVFIE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, she&#8217;s backtracked on the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cnn-fredricka-whitfield-dallas-police-shooter-courageous-brave-210006543.html\">ill-considered case of vocal diarrhea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYesterday, during a segment on the Dallas Police Department attack, I used the words &#8216;courageous&#8217; and &#8216;brave&#8217; when discussing the gunman. I misspoke,&#8221; Whitfield told viewers on Sunday. &#8220;I in no way believe the gunman was courageous nor brave.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, you did, you said it with no prompting. Way to encourage that behavior. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the family blames society;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boulware&#8217;s father, Jim, told the Associated Press that his son was mentally unstable and angry with police after losing custody of his child, and that the family had tried to get him medical help but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect&#8217;s brother, Andrew Boulware, accused authorities of ignoring the family&#8217;s pleas for help.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They diagnosed him as &#8216;sane&#8217; in 15 minutes,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t honestly think that he would ever go this far, but it was always in the back of my mind that it was a possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We tried to get him mental help numerous times, but the system failed him,&#8221; Boulware&#8217;s mother, Jeanine Howard, said in the statement to local media. &#8220;He was very delusional. It was very obvious.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, he built an armored vehicle with firing ports in the side and back. He built bombs. I wouldn&#8217;t know how to build a bomb, but somehow this mentally deficient fellow figured it out, along with a firing mechanism that detonated the bombs when the robot started messing with the box full. <\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;m sure that the mugshot above wasn&#8217;t taken after this incident since a sniper took him out with a single shot. Apparently, he blamed police for losing custody of his child to his mother, the woman quoted above. If they thought that he was unstable, his family should have been monitoring him and he wouldn&#8217;t have been able to complete his little project.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone else noticed that the usual suspects aren&#8217;t calling for more background checks because of this? Probably because he must have bought the scary black guns illegally. The jumpsuit in the picture above is testament  to the fact that he was already forbidden to buy any firearms, yet he had them, and bomb components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We didn&#8217;t talk about James Boulware this weekend. 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