Given the details that have come out about the shooter that attempted to take out Trump, or rather… the surprising LACK of information on him, there’s one possibility that really needs to be considered, which is played into with Wikipedia’s move to have a separate article about the kid as I pointed out: his motivation wasn’t political, but for notoriety….
No one has been able to pin down any motive. Statements about his political beliefs are all over the place. He was a registered Republican but gave to left-leaning causes… That kid was probably looking to be remembered for something.
And now he will be. He’s basically… gone viral because of this.
Which is actually MORE scary, when you think of it. That someone would consider such an act not because of ideology, but to “go viral”. That so much attention gets foisted onto the perpetrators of events like this that it only sets the stage for someone else to try this, also knowing they’ll be remembered for years because of it.
Notoriety breeds copycats. And the prospect of going viral has caused people to do some pretty despicable things. Probably about time we take another very hard look at where social media has taken us.
