Seems like the most bush league Presidential assassination attempt ever that got a boost by the incompetency or lack of adequate security detail. It doesn't make sense how it was allowed to happen. It doesn't make sense how some dorky looking 20 year old who very likely had some undiagnosed mental and/or emotional issues would not only decide he was going to make the attempt, but that he would have confidence enough to try to get a long gun into the perimeter and then actually succeed at doing so. It seems highly improbable that this was a spur of the moment plan for him. I have to wonder how far out this speech was planned and announced which in turn was the amount of time Crooks had to plan. It doesn't make sense that he would presume the roof was not already occupied by SS or in the crosshairs of SS from another vantage point before he made his way on to the roof. Maybe there was a conspiracy, maybe not. The door certainly seems wide open for that discussion and speculation. I think it's also possible based on the above that perhaps that his primary goal all along was suicide by sniper fire and secondary goal was to get famous doing it, maybe, had he succeeded, as a twisted parting one up to his high school bullies. Just a thought.

We'll probably never know what was going through his head though so probably just pointless speculation on my part. I'm just fascinated by the motivations behind the crazy [BLEEP] some people do.

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