Well....the smoke has cleared, and what you can say is that the bow-and-arrow attacker from this week's event....has a bit of history. This came up via N-TV as I watched it this AM.
Back in 2015, the police were alerted that this guy seemed 'unhinged'. The police evaluated the guy, and simply said that they didn't think he was capable of a 'politically motivated act of violence'.
2017 comes around, and he puts a video up....announcing now that he's a Muslim, and there's more reports to the police. Again, they evaluate things and say that there is no specified threat from the video chatter.
The current chatter from the police (after the act)? They say he's not ideology-driven. In various ways.....they simply identify the guy as a 'nut' (my word of choice).
Should he have been put into a facility for treatment in 2015? Probably. But all of this is going to involve a judge, and questions over when you say 'enough' and house a guy in a mental facility.
What you can generally say is that from 2015 on....every year that passes....this guy gets deeper into an illusion, and probably unable to grasp reality. Terrorist? He might confess to some religion conviction, but whatever drove him to that....probably was just another illusion over the top of an existing illusion.
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