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Sikh temple shooting what-if's

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    Lis Wiehl & Tamara Holder discuss the legal possibilities if the gunman was not killed

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-- admit this certain that this awful shooting at the sikh temple.

-- would often in these.

Instances -- of this sort of recovery process the people.

He's -- somebody on trial seeing somebody punished for what they did I guess -- -- way this guy has been punished because he died in the shoot out.

It did it take something away from the victims doesn't win him back.

Kept us in some ways I mean he could have been charged with a hate crime because -- -- charged with domestic terrorism obviously murder me and that and they -- all been there the victims cameras were there to see it.

On the other hand.

Talk about closure I mean they do have close you know they don't have to wait through all these years and it.

An insanity defense -- cut competency defense all of these kind of things we're seeing -- mother a case is right now on the board.

So.

That is close report them.

I feel like.

There's also the issue with society and not just the family but we as a society are also injured in a situation like this it's not just six families that have been -- Or ten injured or fifty injured or whatever the situation as.

But it's understanding why what drove somebody to do this and likely -- oh right that's that -- part.

I'm fit that were all missing was it a hate crime was it's an.

This is difficult because it doesn't appear that he left any kind of manifest or anything this some of this some comments on.

-- -- -- be described as white supremacist web sites he had this and -- -- a couple of banner that word had some fairly are racist lyrics in years but never.

Nothing nothing really.

Definitive with this.

No but there were other things were happening in his life apparently he just lost his job -- just through this -- I -- they sound like Monday things Brett would not you know but if you're if you're already at that edge.

Psychologically you're already.

Capable of thinking about hate like that I mean who joins whites from expand after all right and then those things happen to your life.

Then what you do you try to take control ultimate control killing a -- of political all right too.