But not, alas, without killing someone, and getting someone else killed…

NORFORK, Ark. – A teenager suspected of a hatchet and gun attack in a Massachusetts gay bar was captured here Saturday after a rural police officer was gunned down and a female passenger of the teen killed in a shootout with police several minutes later, state police said.

Dig this…

Robida was a high school dropout who friends say glorified Naziism but never expressed any specific prejudice against gays.

Sounds like that crowd were all several sandwiches shy of a picnic. Naziism is nothing more then hate glued together with rhetorical duct tape and chicken wire. If he was a Nazi wannabe he didn’t have to be specific about who he hated to be dangerous to goddamn nearly everyone.

I am so very sorry that Arkansas policeman, officer Jim Sell, was killed. I know there are a lot of people who may wish it otherwise, but I’m glad they took Robida alive nonetheless. People like that need to be held accountable and I don’t think letting them go out in a blaze of gunfire is doing that.

[Update…] Now they’re reporting that Robida was shot twice in the head and is in, surprise, surprise, critical condition. Yeah…two to the head will do that usually. There’s also one news account out there saying that it was Robida who shot his female passenger, not the cops, and that the cops opened fire on him after he did that. I suppose we’ll get a somewhat clearer picture of what happened later.