The dead Domestic Terrorist died trying to be a martyr - He was just a crazy misguided guy trying to go for his gun and got shot and killed.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/lavoy-finicum-was-a-moron-with-a-martyr-complex-who-died-without-becoming-a-martyr/

A person who has a martyr complex “desires the feeling of being a martyr for his or her own sake, seeking out suffering or persecution because it either feeds a psychological need, or a desire to avoid responsibility.” Finicum’s behavior prior to his demise clearly shows this pattern. For weeks he gave interviews to large media outlets like CNN whereby he expressed his willingness to die in a shootout with law enforcement. It appears that he was not only predicting his own death, but also longing for it.

Why anyone should have a martyr complex is a curious question since it seems to be counterproductive to some of our most fundamental instincts as humans.  How is it that our biological programming—which is designed to survive, reproduce, and raise offspring—gets overridden? The choice to act against genetic interests by sacrificing one’s life may be best explained by a theory put forth by psychologists that suggests it is done in an effort to gain personal significance. In other words, a willingness to die for a cause might be motivated by a desire to be remembered by one’s peers long past death. Their self-sacrifice gains them recognition and prestige amongst their group, allowing them to “live forever” in the minds of those close to them. Perhaps LaVoy Finicum was less of a martyr who was killed for his beliefs, and more of a person who died in an attempt to impress friends and be called a hero by other loony “patriotic” fundamentalists.

Martyrdom only occurs when an awareness of your cause is created by your death. A martyr is killed because the powers that be want him silenced, not because he yearns to go out in a blaze of glory that will be remembered by his crazy comrades. For these reasons, Lavoy Finicum may ultimately be viewed as more of a moron than a martyr. I do not write these words with joy. It is a tragedy that someone with arguably good intentions had to die without anything positive to come from it. But maybe there is an important lesson to be learned here. If you want to be an agent of change, direct your efforts to delivering your message to the greatest number of people possible, which can be done much more effectively from behind a keyboard or a microphone than through what ultimately amounts to a senseless suicide.