Yep. More than one factor. All needed. Dunno that his motivation was him seeing Trump as a bully. If that were the case, he would have gone after his actual tormenters
i dont care where you stand politically, this is suspicious as hell?? blackrock?? they literally deleted the video at around 8 AM ESTarchive this video
So this kid has been described by his peers as having been the target of some pretty severe bullying throughout his childhood. I'm sure he also saw how the former, and likely future President relentlessly directed similar behavior towards many people. Not only that, but he surely witnessed many people both on social media and in his daily life joining in on this behavior, and celebrating it. It's really not too hard to see how a person like Crooks could have been motivated to do what he did.
Not the 24/7 fear mongering the media has done over Trump?
The 24/7 fear mongers are on the right. Trump calls America a failed country regularly. All that negativity he spreads has an impact.
The 24/7 fear mongers are on the right. Trump calls America a failed country regularly. All that negativity he spreads has an impact.
But please continue to insult the other side.
So that's why this kid shot Trump?
Nobody knows why the kid shot Trump. The kid is dead. You attempting to blame the left is ridiculous. He was a Republican raised by Republicans. Maybe it was his home life. Quit trying to twist it into something it isn’t.
He pretty much fits the profile of loner young adult mass shooter. These type of mass shooters have a psychosis where they think they'll be remembered and compete with each other to be remembered the most. In the past, that's meant trying to kill as many people as possible. (I think they want as many people as possible to feel their emotional pain). In part because of that, the media has stopped talking all that much about mass shooters. That a mass shooter now decided the way to the attention they seem was to attack a high profile target is a new & disturbing development.
From CBS, “He also said Crooks was very COVID-conscious and wore a surgical mask long after they were required.”
From what I've read, Blackrock has had heavy investments and ties with political interests as well as the gun industry. Not sure if it connects in some way with this kid, but it is rather strange.
As for COVID, IDK. You think he was angered by all the death and blames Trump? Maybe there was a COVID-related death in his immediate family.
Alex Jones had a far right guy on recently that proposed that if Trump is assassinated that would be the death blow to libs and their movement forever. This guy saw that happening and described it almost as a utopia of circumstances that would be favorable to their "cause. He postulated that Mike Flynn would step into the role if Trump was taken out.
And there is another faction of the far right that don't think Trump is far right enough for him and want someone else.
If you take a visit to these far right podcasters you get inundated with this stuff. This kid might have thought hew as ushering in a new right wing utopia.
Alex Jones had a far right guy on recently that proposed that if Trump is assassinated that would be the death blow to libs and their movement forever. This guy saw that happening and described it almost as a utopia of circumstances that would be favorable to their "cause. He postulated that Mike Flynn would step into the role if Trump was taken out.
And there is another faction of the far right that don't think Trump is far right enough for him and want someone else.
If you take a visit to these far right podcasters you get inundated with this stuff. This kid might have thought hew as ushering in a new right wing utopia.
Huh. Lots of potential influences on this kid, both internal and external. We'll see how things unfold as investigators start turning over the stones.
a bullied 20 year old man failing to launch and feeling powerless is the kind of person who lashes out to get revenge against a cruel world.
in a sane country he lashes out without a powerful firearm. Maybe gets in fistfights. In this country well he gets a powerful firearm and shoots people in an effort to prove he's a somebody and has some power and agency over his life. 'I'll show those ashholes in PE class who bullied me who I am and what I can do!'
a very American story.
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I doubt the kid would have done this without the fear mongering over Trump.
So trump spews endless incendiary rhetoric, some of which literally incites an insurrection attempt, but the media is to blame by reporting all of the stupid sh&t he says and does? LOL, Ok. The guy who has promised vengeance and retribution and military tribunals against his political opponents if he's re-elected? You mean that guy? If anything, trumps antics are under-reported because we've almost become numbed by the sheer volume of it. Nice try, gaslighter.
a bullied 20 year old man failing to launch and feeling powerless is the kind of person who lashes out to get revenge against a cruel world.
in a sane country he lashes out without a powerful firearm. Maybe gets in fistfights. In this country well he gets a powerful firearm and shoots people.
a very American story.
Exactly. And people get angry at one another all the time in every society. It has happened throughout history. Yet when everyone has weapons on their hips, something that momentarily draws a person's temporary ire becomes a road rage incident with death.
But it is far too difficult to figure out why it happens here. It is a mystery what it could be. I guess we will never understand it.
Nobody knows why the kid shot Trump. The kid is dead. You attempting to blame the left is ridiculous. He was a Republican raised by Republicans. Maybe it was his home life. Quit trying to twist it into something it isn’t.
Nah. We know. This was a very troubled, bullied kid who was fed 24/7 fear mongering over Trump
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