CNN: The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN. Here's what we know so far.

The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN. Here's what we know so far.

What we know about the Trump rally gunman so far | CNNwww.cnn.com The gunman who allegedly tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump was bullied in high school and didn’t fit in with other students, former classmates told CNN on Sunday.

Everyone on this website was bullied and didn’t fit in, and guess what we didn’t do, you feckless knobs

I was relentlessly bullied and one of my bullies told an entire classroom that I was voted most likely to shoot up the school, and guess what I didn't do. This "bullied, therefore psychopath" rhetoric is stuck in 1999 with the Columbine media frenzy.

If I didn't know he was white before, I sure do know that now.

So what? That's like three-quarters of all high school students. Get a new playbook.

Okay, you're starting to make connections, good. Next question, why is bullying so common? Why is violence toward the vulnerable normalized? Follow that train of thought

Consider that you might be following the train of thought the skeet wants you to: by identifying the shooter as a bullied misfit, we’re asked to find him sympathetic and sad, and less likely to think of him as radicalized and dangerous and culpable for his actions. White boy benefit of the doubt.

Genuinely curious. What playbook? What do you think the "play" is? Real question.

Agreed. I have no idea how people are reading this reasonable sounding CNN article. It gives some important information and doesn't do a lot of speculation.

Yeah, I can hate CNN as much as the next guy, but I don't really know what people want.

The shooter is just another dumb, dead asshole that shot at someone. If there is a shooter-side story, I would prefer it be about how easy it was to get a gun.

Okay, but I still don't understand what you mean by "playbook"?

The playbook is to look into the mind of the shooter. The playbook I would prefer is to look into the prevalence of guns in our culture.

I get that. But they also have to report on it. It matters whether he was, for instance, a bullied high school kid, a communist radical, or far right accelerationist.

"He was bullied in school, which, as we all know, inevitably leads to desire to shoot former presidents." gtfo with this crap.

I can only imagine what your coverage would look like if the shooter was black.

Or from the Middle East...

OR just a registered Democratic voter.

Also "he was a loner" followed by "he had a group of friends".

Shocked they didn't bring him to McDonald's before shooting him.

Just say "He wasn't popular, and he only really opened up & let loose with his own little group of friends." ARRRRRGH! FYI, MOST KIDS AREN'T POPULAR! The biggest difference is Crooks didn't force himself to smile & chat while walking the halls, & lacked interest in getting in with the popular kids.

Have they started talking about him playing violent video games or wearing a black trenchcoat yet?

What a terrible, substance-free article.

extremely irrelevant since the vast majority of victims who are bullied and don't fit in don't attempt assassinations 🤷🏾‍♀️

Who cares? I, too, was bullied and didn't fit in. I have not attempted to murder anyone.

Yup. You're much more likely to get bullied if you're non-white, gender-nonconforming, or both. And yet, it's cis white boys who "can't take it" and murder people.

Cut the crap

He was a school shooter, but it was summer.

Looks like it’s white boy summer

Your bias is showing.

Which part is biased here? It looks like a well researched story.

If the gunman were black man this story would be so very different.

I'm reminded of a middle-aged white male sheriff describing the string of murders committed by a younger white male stochastic terrorist as "him having a really bad day". The murder is then absolved by the legal system and goes on to actively make money from their status and story.

Were the murderer in question not white, the first section of the article would include a mention of them being killed by police already. Their entire personal history would then be demonized by a more active form of No Angel Discourse. The system would never view them as human in the first place.

i was bullied in middle school (literally the entire school ganged up on me once) and weirdly i never shot anyone. or even bought a gun.

I remember where I was (the cafeteria, near the side of the stage), when I found the slam book someone left unattended. I learned everyone thought I was the biggest nerd—including some of who I thought were my best friends. I didn’t shoot anyone either, ijs

why not?

White, wealthy, mixed political neighborhood, working as a nurse (!) and apparently a bunch of explosives in his home and car, whee! It's pretty clear he was deep in paramilitary paranoia. Soon: all about the parents.

Not working as a nurse. A “dietary aide” in a nursing home. Food service. Weird that’s all he was up to when his classmates said he was smart.

Not that there aren’t smart people in tons of so-called unskilled jobs. But it seems strange he wasn’t in college, given the way his background is described.

I am really really curious about the parents now.

The father bought the weapon he used.

Same. The whole thing is awful. I despise Trump but I despise guns even more.

ahk. Well. It seems like he was, how shall we say, troubled. Tends to not generally be a terrific boost for one's career even if one's struggles are mostly internal.

Wait (from another classmate) "...when he was among his group of friends in high school that he was close with." Give me a fucking break. I was also an outcast that had a group of close friends. This is extremely common. It's not even traumatic. Why are you being sympathetic to a murderer?

🤔

Weird how Mike Brown was “no angel” but a would-be presidential assassin is just CNN’s poor, victimized precious little boy. Wonder what the difference could be?

It's qwite the mystery.

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nice job running the kid picture you dipshits. really showing your hand here, yet again

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