I think bad decisions influence him cause he was younger than me. It makes me want to know what happened in his life he was able to buy an AR-15 at 22 I think. He had a good life going and it’s like no he tried to shoot Trump and I wonder why? I don’t see how you can just hate someone that much to also end your life over.
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He had a good life going
Based on accounts from people who knew him at school, he did not.
How so?
Guy was the archetypical school shooter loser that everyone made fun of at school, no skills, no ambition, it literally was a matter of time before something like this happened.
The weapon he used was owned by his parents for many years prior. He grew up in a household full of guns. From everything we can tell right now, it seems like your typical school shooter. Depression and mental illness leads some to want to go with a bang, pun not intended. It doesn’t seem like he hated Trump, so much as he wanted to target someone famous.
That said to your ladder point, literally millions of people gave their lives to kill Hitler.
your ladder point
The point made by a ladder!
(It’s “latter” point, haha)
Aaah thank you, I reread the original post trying to find a point related to a ladder and eventually decided I just didn’t understand what the “ladder point” was referring to, but now I understand them!
Languages are fun :)
to kill him probably
Most people do not go out and attempt an assassination. That alone is an indication of some sort of psychotic break. Evidence may not have been made public yet or there may not be any. The only person who knew for sure is dead.
To add to this, he had looked up several targets, including Biden. So it was likely as you say, a psychotic break followed by lashing out, rather than a partisan choice.
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Probably saw that Project 2025 had a section on banning porn and jailing its creators. His last phone search was even for porn 👀
He probably didn’t hate Trump. He seemed to be targeting a bunch of politicians. He was probably either mad at politics, or just trying to be famous.
No, but speculate we shal!
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I also read he was researching Biden too, suggesting he didn’t care which one he could target. My guess is that he figured trump would be easier.
So you think he didn’t just want to be famous, he wanted to be infamous?
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I think all he wanted was his ear, nothing more! He just wanted to become Lee Harvey Earswald.
Or Mike Tyson?
All signs point to depression + disillusionment imo. He seems to be targeting the most convenient major political figure available. With the system being as inexorably broken as it is, it makes sense.
Not truly. We can make guesses and assumptions. But probably not really know it
They said he searched online for both Trump and Biden. Maybe it wasn’t matter for him whom from them to kill. Just to kill a person of power as big as the president or a candidate of such country as US, with all modern security measures. Like Unabomber, or like in the film The limits of Control. And he was quite near.
My best guess is he was hoping to kick off the Christian jihad/civil war by creating a martyr. He knew the maga folks would believe he was a Democrat plant and run with it.
That’s been my theory as well.
We can never know or speak for why anyone does anything, unless we’re relaying what the person says, because no matter what kind of act we’re speaking of, the only ones who can speak for someone’s intentions is that person. Anything else is putting words in their mouth, an educated guess, based on what we see and not what we don’t. People should stop emphasizing motives as much as they do. Sometimes a motive might not even be able to be manifested in words while still existing.
