[JacobThreeThree]

>why even target the poor guy

There are plenty of dangerous mentally ill people out there who don't use any type of logic or reason as a basis for their decision-making.

[pjc50]

Interesting to see someone whose decision making is so disordered that they manage to carry out a shot from 200 meters and then disappear. That looks more like a carefully planned crime than madness.

[whackernews]

I keep seeing this. Why do people keep making the point that if you can make an accurate shot from 200 yards with a rifle that makes you a sane person?

[edm0nd]

200 meters isn't that far of a shot if you are familiar with shooting or a hunter. I regularly take down deer at 200-300 yards.

The shooter is also in custody already and captured thankfully.

[account42]

Mental illness does not imply the lack of any ability to plan things out.

[swader999]

That they didn't account for drop and hit the neck shows that they weren't in fact very competent.

[kulahan]

I don’t know why this is downvoted. It’s not incorrect. I posit that everyone who’s willing to kill someone in cold blood is at least a little off their rocker.

[thephyber]

It’s interesting that you used a vague term, not a DSM term.

Also, I would argue that it has more to do with mental framing than “being crazy”. Police and military leadership hire selectively and craft training to ensure that people aren’t mentally ill and still willing to kill.

[whackernews]

Right. I think if you decide to kill someone you are, by definition, a nutcase.

[thephyber]

There are also lots of Republicans and right wing media figures who wrongly identified Democrats as “at war with the right.

Mental illness isn’t the only explanation. When people are indoctrinated into stupidity and no longer believe in truth or reality, it’s possible to convince them to both believe “I support police / military” while attacking police officers (several of the worst offenders of Jan 6).

Perceived desperation is a better explainer than some generic mental illness.