"I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman..."

So someone explain to me how if this guy were walking around in the Rocky Mountains with a pistol, sword, dagger, plastic handcuffs, a Bible, and pot saying he was hot on the trail of a notorious criminal, would we not nearly unanimously consider him to be seriously and mentally deranged?  We wouldn't call him an American Hero, right?

Listen, I don't like Osama bin Laden.  I don't think most people do.  And I can't wait for the day that he's brought to justice.  But Gary Brooks Faulkner is no hero.  The guy's brother compares him to a Terminator.  This guy over at The Huffington Post compares him to Superman or Batman, and that even the greatest of superheroes have their psychological flaws.  Except they neglect to take in the important point that NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS ARE REAL.

Vigilantism is not "the American way of dealing out justice."  It's the imagined, fictional way we do American justice.  Just like how this guy is living in a fictional world where he got close to killing bin Laden.