Those who glorify mass murder can very well see people like this as heroes, just as Nazi's thought of themselves as heroes for mass-murdering Jews, Poles, and Russians. During wartime, soldiers are always seen as heroes, and for all we know those soldiers raped women and murdered children. While this guy isn't a soldier, he's still a mass-murderer who is probably seen as a soldier by the sick twisted fucks who praise what he did. It is indeed a sick world we live in.