# Dear Morons: VET YOUR GODDAMN SOURCES

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 15, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-morons-vet-your-goddamn-sources/618841 "2012-04-15T14:41:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-morons-vet-your-goddamn-sources/618841/34 "2012-04-16T13:28:44Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> [I found kind of a negative-OP story this morning](http://news.yahoo.com/norway-killer-admits-massacre-claims-self-defense-093445452.html). The fruitcake Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik had his first day in court today. He killed 77 people, many of them children, and he’s claiming self-defense.

Let’s take a lesson from the Martin/Zimmerman case and wait until all the facts are in before forming any opinions. It’s entirely possible that Breivik was merely following each of the 77 to keep an eye on them—which is his right under the law—and one by one, each of them turned and attacked him, leaving him no choice but to use deadly force. He’s probably as upset as anyone that it had to turn out that way.

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