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.
- edric ( @scytale@lemm.ee ) 38•2 months ago
He had a good life going
Based on accounts from people who knew him at school, he did not.
- Gjolin ( @Gjolin@lemmy.ml ) 13•2 months ago
A classmate said that they collaborated on a project on JFK’s assassination and he was obsessed with the topic. I think he just wanted the infamy. Also it is pretty clear to me at this point that there was no strong political motive. He left no manifesto and did not even have any extensive political history on his devices.
Forgive the FoxNews link but this video is the best I found: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6358301112112
- Don_Dickle ( @Don_Dickle@piefed.social ) Afaraf7•2 months ago
Can people quit saying he bought the damn gun…he got it from his father.
- Truck_kun ( @Truck_kun@beehaw.org ) English6•2 months ago
he was able to buy an AR-15 at 22 I think.
Pretty sure the reports point to him having it for over a decade. Without taking any effort to look it up, I think his dad bought him that gun in like 2013, so he was much younger at the time.
As for ‘good life going’, doesn’t sound that way in general, but apparently he just got his associates degree from community college, and had been accepted into a university, but he decided not to go.
- DavidDoesLemmy ( @DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ) 5•2 months ago
Maybe he was listening to Marilyn Manson.
- dizzy ( @dizzy@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
It’s a shame he’s been accused of being a creep/rapist. Not for his sake, I hope justice is served, just so many misplaced “I told you so”s to go around because of it.
- DavidDoesLemmy ( @DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone ) 1•2 months ago
I wasn’t sure if you were talking about Trump or Manson for a moment.
- jet ( @jet@hackertalks.com ) English5•2 months ago
The shooter is dead, knowing what they were thinking is going to be impossible now. People are going to guess based on situational information but we will never know
- 10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
Because it was the most convenient person to murder: hole is security, piss easy access to a rifle, nothing left to lose. Do you honestly think that someone with a life worth living would risk it like that? Legal Eagle did a good video explaining the shooting. (https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=l4SZgsNLV-s)
- NauticalNoodle ( @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ) 4•2 months ago
No, but speculate we shal!
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English3•2 months ago
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.
- FreudianCafe ( @FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago
Have you heard of CIA? Or Malcom X? Or Martin Luther King? Or John Kennedy?
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- wuphysics87 ( @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
‘We’ as in any humans vs no humans? Yes. ‘We’ already know. And ‘we’ likely knew before. ‘We’ just didn’t find the needle in the hay stack soon enough.
But ‘we’ as in you and I? No. ‘We’ may never know anything. And, ‘we’ certainly won’t know everything. It’s on a need to know basis, and ‘we’ don’t need to know.
- snownyte ( @snownyte@kbin.run ) 0•2 months ago
Not really. It’s like with any mass shooter case where the shooter kills themselves. It’s frustrating because we’ll never know what in their mind, got them to do what they did. So we’re all going to be spending lots of time just simply speculating and having hot takes.