Right now, no one at all thinks what happened at the WH Correspondents Dinner was just a simple lunatic doing lunatic things.

What strikes me as really odd about it is that this guy wasn't stupid. He planned ahead. He traveled in the way least likely to get him stopped or caught. He had a degree in engineering.

Not that someone can't go nuts or be radicalized. This kind of "crazy dude armed to the teeth shows up at a rally" incident has happened a few times already. But for someone to plan this well and then show up to an event in a large room with close-range weapons seems like a strategically bad decision meant to fail. This seems to me like someone pushed to do a suicide by cop at a specific event.

Many people know about the prevalence of sextortion online. And we know that this guy was a teacher in California, so even entirely AI-generated images of him doing something bad with kids is enough to end his career. Even if 100% fabricated.

My theory is that a nation-state's wide net of collecting info on lots of Americans managed to get something on him, and managed to lure him in deeper and deeper into enough career-ending and family-shunning level bad shit that when they turned it on him, he couldn't even commit suicide to end his problems - someone threatened his family and/or friends. And the only way out was to do something like what he did on Saturday.

The fact that he got taken alive is one of the most shocking parts of this to me.

But....it's just a theory. What do I know...