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WillRavenel THE STROBIS WEAKLY's avatar

Mark David Chapman was a huge John Lennon fan, and It made no sense to anyone that he’d kill Lennon.

Now here we have a young conservative, at odds with the rest of his liberal high school classmates, who evidently loved gun culture; and I’m willing to bet that he left behind something — a journal, texts, emails? — that describe his political opinions. And in all likelihood it will reflect the sort of hero worship of Donald Tя☭mp that you’d expect of a young, conservative gun lover.

It makes no sense that he’d kill his savior either, but there it is. MAGA would like us to believe he shot Tя☭mp and killed a Tя☭mp fan because the “Deep State” directed him to do so. But I think the reasoning behind his violent act was likely more akin to the same reasoning behind Chapman's.

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Donald Cunningham's avatar

Same with Selena, her best friend shot her. It was a love-hate relationship that broke down when she was fired for embezzling from Selena.

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Midwest Transplant's avatar

I read that Alex Jones on a podcast said a few months ago that a Trump assassination is what is needed to start the civil war. Maybe the shooter thought that would happen. Who knows?

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Carolyn Phipps's avatar

Perhaps it's a certain kind of thinking in which to kill the admired or beloved object is a way to uniquely claim or own them.

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