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.

He had a good life going

Based on accounts from people who knew him at school, he did not.

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.

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.

to kill him probably

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.

Maybe he was listening to Marilyn Manson.

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

No, but speculate we shal!

Probably saw that Project 2025 had a section on banning porn and jailing its creators. His last phone search was even for porn 👀

I think all he wanted was his ear, nothing more! He just wanted to become Lee Harvey Earswald.

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

Can people quit saying he bought the damn gun...he got it from his father.

I am sure that some information and reasoning will emerge at some point, after they've looked through his phone, computer, home and talked to people who knew him.

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.

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.

They googled a bunch of public figures and locations, so guessing notoriety

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.

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Unless you can talk to dead people I don't think so.

'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.

Have you heard of CIA? Or Malcom X? Or Martin Luther King? Or John Kennedy?

Parents worked in Psych, media failed to differentiate whether therapists of spcial workers, but that particular group is great at fucking up their kids and is capable of hiding and/or minimizing issues.