Missy Ryan

He was much less combative with the media than he normally is.

And he was very...

It was notable to me how different he seemed in his public persona and his kind of character that he's displaying on screen than he often is.

Well, that he harboured animosity toward Trump and the officials around him, and that he seems to have been more of a lone agent than part of any sort of organised political movement or armed movement, and that in some ways echoes...

the person who killed Charlie Kirk, it echoes some of the other people who have taken up arms and been radicalised in our country.

And that, I think, really, for me, raises questions about social media and about, like, you know, the way that politics is being digested by ordinary citizens.

Exactly.

I think that is significant because, you know, unlike Butler, Pennsylvania, or the guy who was at Trump's golf course in Florida, this seems to have been a more broad set of targets.

And I think that, you know, just from a personal perspective, that could really influence how

these senior leaders respond you know that nobody is gonna take kindly to that and it really could kind of energize the response and you know i think presumably they're doing a very energetic search of this person's life his social media his contacts all of that

It is.

It's just, you know, I mean, there's political violence, but there's also a lot of non-political violence in this country.

We have, you know, the availability of guns and the availability of, you know, very destructive guns is a fact of American life.

And that, you know, has a big impact.

Not, you know, it's not just politicians.

It's people at church or schools.

So it's not surprising.

We've had political violence, obviously.

You know, we've had presidents who have been assassinated.

And that isn't new.