One of the terrible effects of public and very publicized murders is that there are sick people who sometimes attempt to commit copycat crimes.
It’s a twisted pattern in human behavior that I won’t pretend to understand, but we’d be foolish to ignore it.
Having said that, it can be tempting for some to label any murder with hints of a leftist political motivation to be a copycat of Charlie Kirk’s murder, and that simply isn’t the case. There are simply some people that think that their twisted ideology justify killing other people for attention.
And that may be what happened in a recent horrible incident in New Hampshire. Michael Casey and Patrick Whittle write,
Patrons at a restaurant acted quickly and selflessly to stop a gunman who opened fire while a wedding was taking place at a New Hampshire country club, averting a worse tragedy, authorities said Sunday.
One person was killed and two others were wounded by gunfire Saturday night before a suspect was taken into custody in a nearby neighborhood not long after the shooting, authorities said.
The gunfire killed Robert DeCesare Jr., 59, at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, said New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke. They said the suspect was Hunter Nadeau, 23, of Nashua, and that he had been arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder for knowingly shooting DeCesare.
Nadeau was a former employee of the club, Formella said, adding that Nadeau made a number of statements during the shooting and appeared to be attempting to cause chaos in the moment as opposed to showing a hate-based motivation. Witnesses reported that Nadeau said “Free Palestine” during the confusion.
Now, why in the world would he yell “Free Palestine” while shooting people in New Hampshire, of all places?
I don’t have the answer to that question. Some people thought it was to cause confusion. But the overtly political statement seems to indicate that this may have been some kind of leftist political violence (since leftists tend to be those who are pushing slogans such as “Free Palestine”).
What I do know is that you simply don’t know when violence is coming your way, so you would be smart to train regularly and to carry all of the time.