Manhunt Adds to America's Gun War.

     Are Americans frustrated enough with the wave of recent mass murders and mental health dramas to act?

     Are we willing to sit down and resolve the very uncivil issues destroying our communities and this country, or are we merely clicking the control button toward the next television episode?

     It may be time for all of us to make that decision.

     The largest manhunt on the west coast continues today. This one defies logic but could explode into epic proportions. The Los Angeles Police Department have called upon more than 100 law enforcement officials to canvas Southern California and neighboring Nevada to find one of their own.

     Former LAPD and Navy Lieutenant Jordan Dorner has killed two people Sunday and shot three LAPD officers on Thursday, killing one, before vanishing into the mountains. After literally igniting a raging fire of terror in the greater LA area and beyond, he remains at large.

     Considered deranged and dangerous with a 6,000-word “manifesto” to his credit, Dorner has hit the Los Angeles area so hard, his own former bosses are holding press conferences underground in heavily secured buildings.

     It may surprise you to learn more cops committed suicide in 2012 than were gunned down by fugitives. It might not surprise you Dorner, who was fired by the LAPD in 2008 and possesses vast military and weaponry skills, is considered a one-man army.

     The real question is whether this is the start of something worse in society. Survivalists taking on the very community they either serve or reside in. More guns, more anger, more mental health issues, and even support from the area’s disaffected.

     “We look at the police differently from the way you look at police in your community,” Hodari Sabadu, a 56 year-old South Central Los Angeles resident told the New York Times.

     “In your community, the police is there to protect and serve. In my community, the police are there to harass and insult and to kill if they get a chance.”

     There are more than 100 law enforcement agents, including SWAT, along with some of the most sophisticated weaponry and surveillance in the United States trying to track Dorner down. And folks, that effort in itself, day by day, costs a lot of money, man-hours, and worry.

     People were outraged when a single gunman killed 20 children and six adults in the Newtown massacre in December.

     That’s old news.

     This latest western madman is creating a dire frenzy throughout the third largest police force in the nation and, to date, law enforcement officials have been unable to capture him.

     Now that is a terrorist by every definition.

     He says in his manifesto he plans to strike again. The professionals hunting him say he has the equipment to start a small war.

     When will Americans wise up and realize we are at war? We are at war with mental health issues, poverty, unemployment, and immigration within our own communities. We are at war with our neighbors who we believe will stay across the street forever. We are at war with the very people who are assigned to protect us. We are at war with our youth who do not have the proper tools or opportunities to deal with the future.

     Will new gun laws be a start toward ending the day by day violence in America?

     A recent Quinnipiac University poll released this week showed that 92 percent of the respondents support expanding background checks to all gun sales, including gun shows now exempt from background checks. Earlier in the week, a Pew Research Center Poll showed 85 percent of Americans back universal background checks on gun sales. Yet, Congress continues to stall.

     We hide our heads in the sand and believe it won’t happen to us. And then when it does, we cry wolf and want justice.

     On Friday, Black Bear Lake Mayor Jay Obernolte openly joked at a press conference that the ski resorts will remain open and residents aren’t panicking or worried. He actually told everyone to enjoy their stay while in the well-known affluent resort community. That was the same day police found Dorner’s truck abandoned and burned.

     If and when Dorner strikes again, the mayor might not be as happy.

     Dorner is believed to be on foot and hiding along the San Bernardino mountainside with up to thirty weapons at his disposal. The police are checking all of the dwellings in the Big Bear Lake community. Let’s hope the mayor won’t be eating his own words real soon.