Method Acting

So, if embracing the interests of the criminal classes is demonstrating depraved indifference that is politically inexplicable, why do you do it? Why would you be motivated to go easy on the cons yet so draconian in your attitude to hitherto law-abiding firearm owners. Why the insistence on disarming the populace in the face of a predatory criminal class? The explanation could simply be that as a government functionary in a state that is widely seen as arbitrary and criminally corrupt firearms in hands of people with whom you disagree politically make you nervous. Tyrannical governments being every bit as opportunistic as common criminals and in agreement that unarmed victims are the best victims. It could be that simple I suppose. But the intensity of your True Belief, the absolute sociopathic unconcern demonstrated by your depraved indifference may be no more complicated than your own personal failure -- that big hole in the middle that Doc Holliday ascribed to Johnny Ringo in Tombstone that i quoted in the last letter. [More]

Mike tries to discern a villain's motivation.