About Those Right Wing Extremists...

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Maybe somebody owes Janet Napolitano an apology. Since the leaking of a Department of Homeland Security report claiming that former military personnel might team up with right wing extremists to commit violent acts against the United States, Napolitano has gone out of her way to apologize to veterans groups. But consider this weekend's news item from down in Florida:

On Sunday, lawmen were investigating why Joshua Cartwright, a 28-year-old U.S. Army Reserve soldier with a history of violence, killed Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies Burt Lopez and Warren "Skip" York at a gun range in Crestview.

A few minutes after he killed the deputies, Cartwright was himself killed in a shootout with lawmen in DeFunaik Springs...

...An offense report filed against Cartwright the day he died outlines an angry husband who threatened his wife, kept guns and knives on hand, was "severely disturbed" that Barack Obama had been elected president, and believed the U.S. government was conspiring against him.

It's all very anecdotal, of course.

Filed Under: Featured Stories, Guns, Terror, Obama Administration

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