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MatchboxVagabond
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06 Jan 2025, 5:24 pm

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It's worth noting that they have letters from him and it wasn't terrorism and it wasn't intended to hurt anybody, it was a publicity stunt similar to when people self-immolate in public places to bring attention to a cause. That doesn't make it right, but it does explain why nobody else was killed.

The amount of damage that could have been done with that stuff if he had used a different type of vehicle and reprocessed the fireworks could have been really bad. He had military experience and almost certainly enough training related to explosives that this was clearly an intentional choice not to go for a bigger boom.


Regardless, his action - and the motivation behind it - was nuts.

No arguments there, my point was that it could have been so much worse, but there isn't likely a group of like-minded associates of his looking to terrorize the public or rack up a body count.



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06 Jan 2025, 7:04 pm

MatchboxVagabond wrote:
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MatchboxVagabond wrote:
It's worth noting that they have letters from him and it wasn't terrorism and it wasn't intended to hurt anybody, it was a publicity stunt similar to when people self-immolate in public places to bring attention to a cause. That doesn't make it right, but it does explain why nobody else was killed.

The amount of damage that could have been done with that stuff if he had used a different type of vehicle and reprocessed the fireworks could have been really bad. He had military experience and almost certainly enough training related to explosives that this was clearly an intentional choice not to go for a bigger boom.


Regardless, his action - and the motivation behind it - was nuts.

No arguments there, my point was that it could have been so much worse, but there isn't likely a group of like-minded associates of his looking to terrorize the public or rack up a body count.


That's very likely. I suspect had this been four years ago, he might have attempted this at the capitol riot.


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