# "Kentucky lawmaker facing assault allegations kills himself" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475 "2017-12-14T04:21:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/41 "2017-12-15T07:40:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [The AP is reporting](https://apnews.com/9b9951db3dda4304990fc04277d79e1d/Wife-to-run-for-seat-of-Kentucky-lawmaker-who-killed-self):I don’t think this will go quite the way she envisions it going. IMO, if someone needs ‘fighting for’, presumably to defend and try to uphold them, across a period of three decades, in the majority of cases, it’s an indicator that they are not actually worth defending. Oh, there are a few exceptions where an innocent (or maybe not-innocent-but-justified) idealist is victimised for a very long time, but I sort of feel like this aint that. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/42 "2017-12-15T07:47:08Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Hm. Apparently his “PTSD” [is that 9/11 happened](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/12/14/us/14xp-johnson-screenshot/14xp-johnson-screenshot-jumbo.png). Not that he was there or anything, just that it happened. > [@linked post](#): > > I cannot handle is any longer. IT Has Won This Life . BUT HEAVEN IS MY HOME. Unbelievable. Why does everyone always blame IT? We’re just trying our best to provide the technical services you need. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/43 "2017-12-15T09:54:36Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Unbelievable. Why does everyone always blame IT? We’re just trying our best to provide the technical services you need. No, not IT, _IT_. He just really preferred Tim Curry’s Pennywise to the new one. Seriously, I feel bad about this but I can’t resist a good feedline. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/44 "2017-12-15T12:25:51Z")
Breaking news: it turns out that the suicide/shooting was a mistaken early rumor. Dan Johnson was actually struck by a falling Chinese guy. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/45 "2017-12-15T12:34:57Z")
We are in a nasty mood, aren’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/46 "2017-12-15T12:38:27Z")
John Dunne was wrong. And no condolences for his asshole of a wife either. Don’t forget she chose him. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/47 "2017-12-15T12:48:30Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > And no condolences for his asshole of a wife either. Don’t forget she chose him. GOP family values – the cancer that keeps on giving. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/48 "2017-12-15T13:22:07Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > John Dunne was wrong. And no condolences for his asshole of a wife either. Don’t forget she chose him. That she chose him isn’t a reason to scorn her. That she appears determined to continue to call his victim a liar is a darn good reason to. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/49 "2017-12-15T14:50:16Z")
> [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](#): > > We are in a nasty mood, aren’t we? Honestly, I felt a little bit bad about merrymaking in the thread about the guy who fell off the building (even though it really was an occupational hazard he must have accepted)… …but here? I dunno. Seems like this might actually have been the not the worst way this could end. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475/50 "2017-12-15T14:59:20Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > John Dunne was wrong. And no condolences for his asshole of a wife either. Don’t forget she chose him. Nitpick: [John Donne.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne#Writings) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kentucky-lawmaker-facing-assault-allegations-kills-himself/804475.md?page=2)