Kishkumen wrote:He is saying that the profile of the shooter is much closer to that of a school shooter than I political shooter. I would say in his departure from the political shooter model he is comparable to with Reagan's shooter Hinckley. Hinckley seems not to have had a political beef with Reagan. Instead he was seeking to grab the attention of a famous actor.
I think it is entirely possible that a Biden rally on the same day, at the same time, and in the same location, might have resulted in an injured Biden. I don't see much evidence to support a political motive.
Yeah, for the most part. This was a school shooting. The "cool kids" just happen to be politicians. I think it's pretty ridiculous he'd be fired up over threats to democracy when that democracy wasn't for him. It was for other people. Trying to extract anything of significance out of a 15 dollar donation when compared to four years of isolation and getting bullied is absurd. Same for registering Republican. Meaningless compared to all the rejection inputs. I think he would have been biased against the right because he resonated with gun culture which probably included survivalist paranoia, but in the end, there wasn't a place for him in that village. You know the saying, "the child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."
I'm open to being wrong, and here's some things that could change my mind. The first thing would be diaries or extensive social media indicating active political fantasies. If he had some second life filled with Kaczynski paranoia and the culmination of that was a significant action he must take, then that might be enough to consider it political. He was quite intelligent so it's possible. Whatever it is, it needs to stand on its own. Something else that could change my mind is that it's discovered he was part of an online community with political ties that over a reasonable amount of time, pushed him to this decision. I have doubts about this because an online community would have been something to live for. Of course, there could have been a politically charged adult who manipulated him. I doubt it, but such a discovery would certainly make it political.
Imagine a man in a bad marriage and constant employment problems. Something on Facebook that's political pisses him off, he likes the post or makes a statement and then goes out and commits a violent crime. Yes, it shows the potholes of political incitement, but I have a really hard time calling it a true political motive. It's easy to light a match, dowsing the building in gasoline takes more effort. Should this same person, however, deal with his problems by joining an online group that's political, and he gets caught up in the drama and works himself up, and then goes out and commits a crime connected to the material discussed by his community, then yeah, it's political. Even if the bad marriage was the cause for turning to political escapism, at a certain point, the political life stands on its own.
Until then, this was a school shooting.
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