The paranoid assertion above, as it turns out, is more or less true (much more so than the ones Gibson comes up with on his own time, certainly). For reasons that are not entirely clear even to themselves, news media in the United States (print as well as television) go out of their way to make sure every lone gunman and solitary crazed killer is identified by his full name, regardless of how he is called by relatives, friends and neighbors. (The quoted assertion is false, as John Wayne Gacy/Sirhan Sirhan demonstrate.) Examples of Gunman with Three Names include: