It is with great sadness that I read Deb's "Enough, Already" thread on the main Burning Main tribe.

The rumors and threats, and cruel words of Caleb's friends dishonor him and his memory. I'm sure he would be horrified if he knew how you were treating a woman who treated Caleb pretty damn well. Regardless of his exact feelings towards her Caleb was a grown man capable of making his own decisions of who to associate with. He had made the choice to spend with her, and no, it does not follow that he did that to punish her by planning in advance offing himself in front of this woman.

Let's say for a moment that that is the truth. The TRUTH that you insist on being the ONLY TRUTH. What a foul and despicable man you've made out Caleb to be. What a TERRIBLE and DISGUSTING distorted MONSTER you have turned him into with your "TRUTH." Rather than just telling her she did not want him around, or avoiding situatoins where she would be present, he instead allows himself to be interwined himself in this woman's life even more just so that he can kill himself in front of her, undoubtedly scarring her emotionally for life. WHAT A TERRIBLE FUCKING THING TO CLAIM OF A DEAD MAN. If that is the "truth" you are spreading than ALL OF YOU have turned Shooter into a MONSTER. A DESPICABLE PIECE OF SHIT WHO I AM GLAD IS DEAD.

But... I choose not to believe that is the truth, and in fact it seems out of character for the man I'd gotten to know via Tribe and his works. I choose instead to believe that Caleb was a kind person, a good person, that he was traumatized by his experiences in Afghanistan, and that that trauma caused him to unravel. His pain was so great he took his own life in a spontaneous moment of personal clarity. This good natured man found himself unable to cope and in a spontaneous moment took a gun he knew he had nearby, and pulled the trigger.

[Deb please stop reading here if you are reading this]

You think Deb murdered him? You don't think the blood splatter reports by the investigating officers could tell exactly where Deb was in the room, and the exact direction the weapon was fired in, and the distance from which it was fired? My god, not only are you people monsters, you are stupid. I suppose the two go hand in hand actually.

The fact that this lynching is coming from the Burner community is what is really shocking to me. Not that it should, lynching is human nature, and we have a bunch of stupid, yokels caught in a small town rumor mill here. Could we ask for a better environment for a lynching?

I have enough shame for all of you, don't bother telling me you don't have any. I know you don't, you're too fucking stupid and small.