"Not everyone has handled the indignity as well as Morgan. In 2008, Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton shot up city hall in the town of Kirwood, killing two city council members, a city planner, and two police officers. He also badly wounded the mayor. When the mostly white Kirkwood annexed the unincorporated black community of Meacham Park 15 years earlier, the construction business Thornton had built and run out of his home ran afoul of his new town’s zoning regulations. Thornton didn’t have the money to move his business to another part of town. Over the next decade, he accumulated $20,000 in fines, lost his business, declared bankruptcy, and was reduced a community punchline. He was the guy with the signs on his van, who interrupted city council meetings with grand conspiracies, and filed lawsuits that were barely readable. His friends and family say the constant harassment cost him his sanity."
Pity the mayor survived.
BTW, the party affiliation of the towns' elected officials is never revealed-- I assume they're all Democrats.
Appropriate? I hardly think killing 5 people is appropriate.
I knew Thornton, was a classmate of his brother. Good guy, a little goofy, but he simply would not come to terms with the powers that were at the time. Too bad he picked up that gun...it really is: the yuppies on the city council are, unfortunately, almost infinitely replaceable, as events subsequently have proven yet again.