Planned Parenthood shooter admired abortion doctor’s killer

Robert Louis Dear was inspired by Paul Hill, who killed an abortion doctor and his bodyguard in Pensacola, Florida in 1994.

Hill’s bullets ultimately killed abortion provider Dr. John Bayard Britton and his bodyguard, a retired U.S. Air Force officer named James Herman Barrett. He was executed by the state of Florida for this crime. At Hill’s execution in 2003, his supporters “declared him a martyr and warned that his actions might be replicated,” according to the New York Times report from the time.

Even before Hill killed Britton and Barrett, he frequently advocated for violence against abortion providers. Hill himself said that he was inspired by another murder of a doctor who performed abortions, Dr. David Gunn, who was killed just one year before in Pensacola.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.