Emily Jashinsky
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Look, I think you have to take these things on a case-by-case basis.
There are real crazies who commit crimes.
As you mentioned, the career criminal in North Carolina who committed that murder on a subway was mentally ill.
And so to ascribe, you know, to try to put ideology on that is...
difficult and I think misguided.
However, the Charlie Kirk assassin was not crazy.
We saw in those text messages rationality and rationale.
He tried to
cover up what he was doing.
He had a plan.
He had a plan of escape.
He tried to protect his lover and cover his tracks and directed his lover to delete his text messages.
All of this is extremely rational.
And he said, point blank,
Some of this hatred cannot be tolerated.
It has to be expunged.
I'm paraphrasing here.
But there are cases, obviously, in which you can ascribe clear motive, and that is one of them.
And so...
I think it's important to distinguish between these two things.