Joel,
I fully understand that this is a moderator-less forum and what that means. I
was merely suggesting that we seemed to be re-plowing a lot of plowed ground,
to the point where at least one person had become put off by how their comment
had been referenced by another poster. Sometimes in discussions like this, the
absence of new information to mull over and opine about gives way to
individuals within the discussion taking a microscope to each other's opinions.
Differences of opinion are typically doomed to remain as such. My post was an
expression of an opinion with the intent to suggest that maybe we were
approaching a point of diminishing returns. I didn't expect you or others to
necessarily agree and it's pretty clear that you don't.
At this point, I intend to step away from further discussion of the Finicum
shooting until more information is revealed, if for no other reason than it
feels like I'm talking out of my backside to keeping rehashing the few details
that seem known. I can't know what Finicum or the FBI agents were thinking,
other than to presume that everyone involved was under extreme stress.
Split-second choices were made by a number of people who, aside from Finicum,
will likely spend the rest of their lives replaying these events over and over
in their minds wondering what they might have done to produce a different
outcome. I personally don't want to get stuck down that well shaft...repeatedly
watching the video and re-reading the report from the investigation in an
effort to understand a sequence of events that I did not witness. We would all
like to know exactly what happened and why, but we'll probably never get a
fully satisfactory answer. Perhaps frustration with that reality plays out as
frustration with those who interpret accounts and video of these events
differently. But what do I really know? I'm just thinking out loud here.
Dave Irons
Portland, OR
