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...local anarchist collective when Fitzpatrick became a regular at the group's bookstore. ``He was a pretty muscular guy with a physically intimidating presence,'' says Gunderson, who remembers Fitzpatrick trying to draw members into drug dealing and militant actions involving ``Molotov cocktails or guns or bombs.'' Fitzpatrick sold a shotgun to Rob Shapiro, another collective member. ``He said it was important that we be armed,'' says Shapiro. At a bar one night, Fitzpatrick plied the group with beer while urging them to make an armed attack on a polling place during the 1986 election. ``By the end of the evening...
...split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly circular seven-inch pattern of holes over his heart." For insurance, the killers shot him again with the shotgun and pistols...
Alternative rockers are notoriously mopey, but Love's husband Kurt Cobain took the attitude to a tragic extreme and killed himself with a shotgun. Months later, Love revealed the couple's horrifying original plan: to commit a double suicide following the birth of their daughter...
...your hands, the hands of the people of the state of Florida and on the jury!" The judge said he had rejected life in prison -- an option he had -- because Hill had paused briefly in the parking lot of the clinic after the shooting before throwing down his shotgun and calmly walking off. "The defendant was looking at what he had accomplished with pride and satisfaction," the judge said. Hill's death sentence will be automatically appealed to the Florida Supreme Court...
...this, perhaps, he had no choice. The man either had a genetic screw loose or was irreparably damaged by the fact that his mother (or maybe her lover) killed his revered father with a shotgun when he was 17. In telling this story, Shelton (creator as well of quite a different baseball tale, Bull Durham) had no choice either. To cop some psychological plea for Cobb, to sentimentalize him would have been impossible. You have to allow him his monstrousness, and hope that honest people will find something of their worst selves in his manic cynicism and endless misanthropy...