Man Arrested for owning guns.

[Rev. Rye]

Apparently, his lawyer has since said that the guns being in his hotel room were because of carelessness, not ill intent. Then again, it is his lawyer, so, of course he'd give an innocent explanation. That said, even if this story is true (and I admit it could very well be), frankly, the optics of the situation make it very understandable that they'd go to that explanation. Indeed, if the story I cited is any indication, even Casteel admits that there's a reason that people would see a gun pointed out of a window towards a crowded building as a very bad thing.

As for whether his explanation is true, well, it at least makes sense. It could be true, it could be a lie. It looks like we'll need more information, and the actual trial will likely go into detail about that, and, of course, the wheels of justice are slow.

Why is there no additional coverage? Because, frankly, the media isn't usually interested in sustaining coverage of attempted mass murder. Can you find any instance where they really sustained any degree of interest in attempted mass murder trials? Because I can't. If it bleeds, it leads, and, frankly, cases of thwarted bleeding don't count. Hell, even when they do bleed, the behavioral sink nature of society ensures that there's always some other mass murderer to talk about.