Means, Motive and Opportunity
Means, motive and opportunity.
In a nation with far more guns than people, the means is an easy one. Getting one's hands on an AR -15 is child's play. Guns don't kill (or wound) people. Legislation and Supreme Court decisions do. Ok, maybe guns play a small part in this.
Motive? We are a country embroiled in an uncivil war, every day seeming but a lit match away from a conflagration. And the shooter, like the rest of us, could see evil, hear evil and form a judgment as to where evil emanated. The quite amazing thing is that this hasn't happened earlier to Mr. Trump, Mr. Biden or to a score of others. The events of January 6th 2021 were not an aberration but a symptom of a malignancy that is pervasive. Absolute hatred the coin of the realm.
Opportunity? Since the days when JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and Dealey Plaza met in one horrible sentence, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy found themselves at the wrong end of a thought and a bullet, when Ronald Reagan was in an assassin's crosshairs, we have known that no matter the precautions taken, there will be a moment when our guard is down or when the determination made by the shooter is to go out in a blaze of glory, when means and motive find a hole in the fence and opportunity meets up with its allies. Is Joe Biden safer tomorrow than yesterday? Is Donald Trump?
We seek answers on the hows and whys of Mr. Trump narrowly avoiding death at the wrong end of a gun. We don't have to scour the internet, or dig through the garbage of a 20 year old's life to piece together the clues. We just have to open our eyes to the reality of what we have become. A nation drowning in means, motive and opportunity.