An All-American tragedy in three acts:
Trump, again calling MS-13 gang members "animals," to NATO's Stoltenberg, a Norwegian: "You don't have that where you come from"
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 17, 2018
Stoltenberg was the prime minister of Norway when Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 people in an anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant-inspired terrorist attack on his own country. https://t.co/B5vKkPLD4a
— Pema Levy (@pemalevy) May 17, 2018
And then:
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock claimed Americans needed to wake up to government plot to seize guns https://t.co/aNW7A0mWcN
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 17, 2018
If these characterizations are accurate, this puts the shooter into the Anti-Government Extremist category. pic.twitter.com/q1I3XKZ39W
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 17, 2018
This seems counterproductive to a rational person. Use a firearm to shoot 100s of people and Congress might actually consider gun control legislation.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 17, 2018
This second idea (inspiring future terrorist events) is sometimes called propaganda of the deed or propaganda by the deed. The idea of inspiring like-minded individuals to copy a deadly crime pops up in a lot of manifestos.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 17, 2018
The other message he may be sending to the government?
"Don't fuck with gunowners. We can do serious damage if you try."
If this motive turns out to be true, he was effectively using American civilians as hostages.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) May 17, 2018
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