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Apparently he was registered as a Republican, but in 2021 donated $15 to a liberal organization trying to increase voter turnout.
I'm sure in a few days we'll know his favorite ice cream flavor.
Wtf he just graduated high school a couple years ago? When I think of an attempted assassin, I don't picture someone who can't go into a bar to buy a beer.
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.
One could argue he didn't start it. But the event precipitated many other events that were ready to go.