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Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 6 months agoSomething I didn’t know before now is his dad was a WW2 Navy vet who worked in a corrections department assigned to helping ‘wayword youths’ and eventually got arrested for confidence crimes and bank robbery, after being on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list. Both he and his brother were found to have child pornography on their computers. His house had been broken into during the week leading up to the shooting, I wonder if his brother knew of his plans and tried to hide it, one of the computers in the hotel room with him in Las Vegas was missing a hard drive.
Makhno@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can’t the feds just throw some shit on your computer and pin you for it?
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 6 months ago
No. Not because it’s impossible. But, mainly because it’s only after it goes past court that you’re actually ‘pinned’. So you’re going to have to be certain that will happen, otherwise the political fall out isn’t worth it.
Also let me remind you that the guy shot at a crowd so he was already applying for ending his life in prison. There is no need to turn it into some wicked conspiracy where the feds needed to pin him…
Makhno@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good points!
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 6 months ago
Even if they could, I don’t know why you would jump to that idea when the guy fucking shot 800 people. He clearly wasn’t right in the head. He also had a history of heavy gambling and drinking. I don’t smell conspiracy on this one. This was just a mentally unwell guy who made a decision to murder; it is, unfortunately, a quintessential American story that keeps repeating.