Gavrillo princip, the guy who shot Franz Ferdinand and started WWI, was only 20 when he did it. In fact he was too young for the death penalty so he got to live through most of the war in a cell seeing the destruction he had brought.
If you’re a depressed teenager and don’t think you’ll amount to anything, killing a politician seems like a great way to get your name in the history books if your brain hasn’t fully developed yet.
The young’ns also have more at stake. The longer Trump influences policy, the more damage those policies will do. So, the younger the person, the more of a mortal threat Trump is. Dunno if that’s where the shooter’s head was at, but if it was, I kinda get it.
Gavrillo princip, the guy who shot Franz Ferdinand and started WWI, was only 20 when he did it. In fact he was too young for the death penalty so he got to live through most of the war in a cell seeing the destruction he had brought.
If you’re a depressed teenager and don’t think you’ll amount to anything, killing a politician seems like a great way to get your name in the history books if your brain hasn’t fully developed yet.
This was my first thought.
Also the French resistance group The White Rose (Sophie School and siblings) in WWII who were hanged by the Gestapo for handing out pamphlets.
The young’ns also have more at stake. The longer Trump influences policy, the more damage those policies will do. So, the younger the person, the more of a mortal threat Trump is. Dunno if that’s where the shooter’s head was at, but if it was, I kinda get it.
One could argue he didn’t start it. But the event precipitated many other events that were ready to go.