In the days since the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, there has already been a ton of speculation about not just the shooter’s obvious goals, but what drove him to the point of acting out in such a way.
He did leave a manifesto, which offers some insight, but in a recent interview, a former FBI profiler named Jim Clemente offered his take on the psychology behind Cole Allen’s actions.
It’s an interesting take and considering that Clemente was one of the people who helped solve the DC Sniper case in 2002, he clearly has some expertise in this area.
From FOX News:
Jim Clemente, a retired 22-year FBI veteran who helped crack the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks cases, said Allen expected to die in the attack and that his actions were so extreme that he likely wanted to end his own life.
“He seems, especially through those communications that he sent, he seems like a rational human being who has human empathy. He doesn’t sound like a psychopath,” said Clemente. “He doesn’t sound like somebody who is unstable mentally. Certainly, emotionally, that’s a different story … nothing that I have read or seen indicates that he was having some kind of psychotic break or that he would be schizophrenic.”
“He basically ran through a security checkpoint knowing that there would be numerous armed guards right there, and he’s firing a weapon,” Clemente continued. “But for the circumstances where he apparently tripped and fell, and they pounced on him, he most likely would have been taken down in a hail of gunfire. Now, he’s not stupid. He must have known this. And that might have been part of his motivation, that he didn’t have the will to live, and once you lose the will to keep yourself alive, other people’s lives become much less important.”…
“He didn’t have a general disrespect for human life, he had a very specific disrespect for human life,” said Clemente. “And I think that went along with his own disrespect for his own life.
“Obviously, he was outwardly motivated by the actions of politicians, which is why he targeted them, and this is probably something that he has expressed in his life recently, maybe for a long time,” Clemente said. “But clearly, he’s gotten to the point where that rose to a level — or his own self-image lowered to a level — where he felt like he needed to do something to feel better about his own image or what he perceived the world to be at this time.”
One thing is sure. Allen is going to go to prison for a very long time, possibly for the rest of his life, and for what?
He ruined his life based on ravings he heard from Trump=deranged people in politics and media.
What a sad and stupid decision.
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