Shots fired at trump PA rally

"...according to witness accounts he was bullied in school (...almost every day), ...described as a loner, who was frequently bullied and sometimes wore "hunting outfits to school"...was teased for his poor hygiene and body odor, and that peers would say, “Hey, look at the school shooter over there!”..."

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There haven't been reports of him being treated for any mental health issues, these could be confidential anyway, and it's probably true that some people are reluctant to seek help precisely because they might end up on some do-not-sell list. He probably didn't want that; he'd grown up with guns and enjoyed shooting at the range where he and his family were members.

Additionally, and oddly enough, parents were both licensed counselors/social workers, and apparently both Matthew and his sister were registered republicans. A classmate who took a history class with Crooks said, “he definitely was [politically] conservative...It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate.”

He graduated high school and then finished an associate's degree in engineering science, although he was working in a nursing home kitchen ("Crooks was a dietary aide at Bethel Park Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center - where he provided food and care for post-hospital elderly and sick people"), so he wasn't stupid. All signs point to a socially awkward, isolated kid who was probably hiding a lot. He knew when he climbed up on that roof that if he took a shot at Trump, he wasn't going to survive. In other words, he was suicidal which is synonymous with major depression.

Clearly, he was a deeply disturbed and homicidal young man who wanted to go out with a bang.

 

suicide by cop sounds right. and who knows how working around all that death and dying at the nursing home was impacting his mood. if you're already kind of depressed, that seems like a tough place to work.

 

Maybe Jonah Lomu? I mean, he certainly rolled over the English defenders.

 

Haha Mike Catt got the “speed bump” tag after that first Lomu try.

 

I thought it was to prevent cauliflower ear.

 

That’s why I wore one. It wasn’t going to do much to protect against a concussion.

 

Since we're playing armchair clinical psychologist, how does this diagnosis sound: kid was NOT a Republican but had to go along due to very domineering parents who refused to allow their son to be anything else. He tried (wanted to join the gun club, failed, etc.) was bullied at school, and pretty much saw no future, so maybe it was a just a big "Fvck You" to his parents?

 

If he had problems with his parents, shouldn’t he be shooting them instead of Trump?

 

We've noticed!

 

Unless he left a suicide note or some sort of manifesto, I doubt we’ll ever know his real motivation.

 

Mal Meninga

 

As an armchair psychologist, while that might seem like a reasonable response, maybe he wanted to leave them with the trauma of having to explain what he did to other MAGAs.

In other words, who the fvck knows, LOL

 

He's giving every detail of the events from Saturday like we all didn't see it on live TV.

I also get the feeling this was written by someone else...oh wait he's taking about all the blood and the ears are the most bloodiest part of the body and all the blood in true TrumpRepetiton... Trumpetion?

He hasn't tried to blame it on Antifa, BLM, radical Marxist Democrats...but it does seem like he's using some TrumpHyperbole.

 

I am positive this thing was staged. It just didn't seem real.

 

It was real. All of this talk of incompetence on the part of the USSS is real, but the 2nd shooter on the watertower, blah, blah, blah.

I guess what makes the idea of it being staged is because it seems like just the thing Trumpworld would do.

 

Yes. And the piss poor USSS job from seeing him to evacuating the stage and then the photo op. Like none of it is what was done previous when they saw a threat. If Garland ever wanted to prove he wasn't a horrible AG pick, he could find a motive and the connection to the Trump campaign to change the narrative.

 

Thing is, it is pretty clear the bullet missed blowing Trump's brains out by less than an inch. I don't know how you stage that.