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The Suspected Motive for the Maine Shooter: ‘He Had Paranoid Beliefs’
So this pretty much means that any Trumpist or MAGA American could shoot up a bowling alley, right?
Is it just me, or does the Maine shooter sound like Donald Trump? Or, pretty much any Trumpist out there who, despite all of the proof that the 2020 election was not stolen or fraudulent — except in the cases where Trumpists and Trump were fraudulent — cling to the notion that there is some great, complex conspiracy through which only their X-ray vision minds can see.
The loser whose name we shall not utter in Maine was found dead from a self-inflicted wound. My first reaction was, “What a coward!” If you are “brave” enough to gun down your neighbors with a weapon meant solely for an army, then you should have the guts to face the music — or at least the vengeance of the loved ones of those slaughtered neighbors. My second reaction was, why can’t Trump choose that way out? But that’s another story.
Paranoia is the norm
I wrote last week about the lunacy pushed by right-wingers and the gun-obsessed. Guns don’t kill people; “mentally unstable people kill people.” While this is, of course, not wrong, it is nonetheless semantics. It’s like one partner complaining to the other…
