Shots fired at Trump rally

[Archivist]

I am no fan of Trump. I beleive he belongs in prison for his actions. And while I do not condone the action that had taken place, given what he's done I find myself not exactly feeling sympathetic towards him.

Its like someone who gets drunk at a zoo, climbs into an animal enclosure, and gets mauled.  I'm sorry it happened, but the guy is not blamesless in the situation.   

He's not blameless at all, and there is also the anti-Trump rhetoric which likely fueled the shooter's actions. There is LOT of online rhetoric which says that if Trump is voted back in, America is doomed, and many groups of people will suffer. Recent discussion revolves around the controversial Project 2025 and whether Trump supports it or not.

The shooter was in his early twenties, so most of his teenage and early adult life would have been spent in the proximity, if not influence, of that messaging. It was only a matter of time before someone acted on it like this, right up there with abortion clinic bombings, jihadi beheadings, and on a lower scale, climate protestors supergluing themselves to priceless artwork or roads.

[RCMerchant]

^ I don't feel for the guy at ALL. But what I do think this will motivate some kind of conspiracy theory among his cultists that somehow this was a Democrat hit or some such nonsense.

[Archivist]

There's speculation that he had some inside help in getting into the venue undetected, but I'm more willing to blame incompetence at this point. And now his whole family and circle of friends and acquaintances, coworkers, college lecturers, everyone will be under the federal microscope. Fun ahead for nobody.