The reason I think that it wasn’t politically motivated is because, we have this poor kid that has been bullied every day for years.
In the usual run of things in the US this would just be another school shooting. But those are so passé now days.
To be truly remembered and immortalised you shoot the loudest bully in the world.
This got deleted from unpopular opinions, reason is justifying violence. Just a note, I’m not trying to justify what Thomas did, just speculating on his motivations.
I empathize with Thomas, because that was my experience of school. I was bullied every day for basically my entire school career. I was the weird kid, who didn’t understand people and was smarter than average.
I fantasied about killing my bullies, but in NZ we don’t have access to guns or the fucked up relationship with them that the US does.
I feel sorry for the kid. What he did wasn’t right or good in any way. But I assume the school shootings and this act come from a place of great hurt. The world has shat on them for their whole life and they don’t see it ever ending.
To go further, it took years (many years) after I left school to come to terms with who I was and how to change to be a well adjusted member of society. If I had the kind of access to guns that you seem to in the US, I don’t know what would have happened, I was an angry hateful person who blamed others around me (rightfully so in a lot of cases, but not always) for all my troubles.