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Conservatives are shooting conservatives now, so I guess I better vote conservative for being so brave by standing up to conservatives.
Not the first time they go against each other, this is just the most high profile target so far. Remember that redditor who murdered his own father because he thought he's some sort of liberal? Or when they tried to hang Mike Pence? There's quite a few such cases, just typically not the former president / current presidential candidate. Who knows what went on in this guys head, he was likely kinda deranged like many of the other perps were. Maybe something about Trump made him think he wronged him in some way or the recent reveals actually opened his eyes and made him feel betrayed. Or he was just conservative but anti-Trump and saw him as dangerous enough to make use of his right to squash a fascist uprising. There's so many potential scenarios.
right around 20 years old is a prime time for schizophrenia to surface
I dunno if I like jumping to mental illness as an explanation for this in reinforcing established and disproven stereotypes
There's always some mental health issues with something like this. The very concept of killing someone and knowing you're going to die as a result requires an altered mental state.
I wouldn't say so in every situation. I'm sure plenty parents would say they would die to defend their kid, and I don't think that would quality for an altered mental state.
I mostly do agree though, but I do think you can sacrifice yourself as a rational and mentally healthy person. But it certainly not a choice that hypothetical person would make lightly.
Well yeah, the whole greater love thing. This doesn't strike me as such a situation though...
I'm just pointing out a truth about the disease. If you have ever witnessed someone change almost overnight at that age, it's a possibility an undiagnosed illness is revealing itself. People do some whacked out shit, especially if they are intelligent.