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Which is definitely why the media is posting his picture and personal details everywhere right? To make sure other people aren’t persuaded to seek fame in the same way.

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The guy tried (and almost managed) to kill an ex-president and candidate for a second term. Of course the media is going to cover all the shit they can. It gives them clicks and that’s all that matter.

On the other handl, apparently, the guy had some mental health issues was bullied and honestly, what other outcome can you expect if not a very fast death when you try to do what he did in the way he did it?

Either he was out of his mind and was completely delusional, or was trying to leave the world with a huge kill in his name to be remembered.

Edit: typo

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I absolutely agree, but I think it’s important to neither glorify nor demonize the attacker. This isn’t a route we should keep open to gain fame/infamy.

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We shouldn’t demonize him, but we should be sober about him.

He was a loser who intended to make our country worse.

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If there’s one guarantee in this world, it’s that shooting someplace up will always get your name in the news.

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Although in the US it’s so common you’ll be forgotten in days unless the target is somebody famous.

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Good. Let’s keep running that so the famous people are the ones getting shot. Not our nations children in schools 😊

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Welcome to late stage Capitalism.

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You’re not wrong, but it can be put even more succinctly: “But, money!”

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