John Orr Arsonism

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Yes John Orr is the definition of a serial arsonist basing it off of what was mentioned in the first slide alone, not even adding in what is applied to this in the other slide. John Orr did not care at all who he harmed in his fires and it is even stated in the video that he felt that the people who were hurt and killed in the fires as stupid people who had made stupid decisions by not getting out or away from the fire soon enough. He did not exhibit any sort of rebellious behavior, but did try to join multiple blue collar jobs such as the police force and the fire department for the city of Los Angeles and failed at both of these so he took on small blue collar jobs until landing at a small fire department. This allowed him to move up the

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