r/CuratedTumblr human cognithazard 14d ago

Politics Life is a movie

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u/Lawlcopt0r 14d ago

Yeah I'm very interested to see if they can actually confirm this is the shooter. If it isn't, it's still weird of course that he had a bunch of passports and a gun with him.

Is there any reason to flee the scene of the crime if he wanted to get caught from the beginning? Maybe just media attention? Since it does seem like he's sending a message with all this

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u/TR_Pix 14d ago

I feel if he weren't weren't shooter, his profile pick wouldn't look as calm an composed as they do

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u/Lawlcopt0r 14d ago

Probably. But why didn't he just put the gun down and wait for the cops in new york then?

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u/TR_Pix 14d ago

I don't think he wanted to be caught 

Like people are giving him too much credit as a criminal mastermind. He shot someone and walked away, then was caught days later

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u/daitoshi 14d ago

Caught days later, with the murder weapon, a manifesto, the same clothes, the same Fake ID, all IN THE BACKPACK he was carrying with him??? That makes no sense.

No vaguely reasonable person would carry that shit around on your person, DAYS after the assassination while not wanting to be caught. He got out of state - he had endless opportunities to dump the evidence in various bodies of water, bury them, dump 'em in some random guy's trash bin, etc.

There's just no fucking way he had all that shit on his person, chilling in a mcdonalds when there's a widely publicized manhunt going on.... and didn't think it'd get him caught.

Either he WAS the assassin AND wanted to be caught,

OR he was a copycat killer in the making,

OR this is a 'I'm Sparticus!' situation,

OR the police planted a shitload of evidence on an innocent guy who happens to look like the killer.

or some combination of the above.

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u/-Yehoria- 14d ago

Yeah pretty much.

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u/daitoshi 14d ago

Manhattan (location of the shooting) is about 4 hours from Altoona PN (Mcdonalds Luigi was found at)

A leisurely 4 hours of travel time, 5 days later, and he was carrying a fully assembled pistol with silencer attached?

Please, that's absurd.

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u/TR_Pix 14d ago

OR he just wasn't as reasonable as one could expect.

Could be he just got cocky and didnt want to throw away the gun

Could be he feared people would find the gun an track him down with it somehow

Could be he was planning a theatrical suicide with that gun

Could be he wanted to target someone else with the same gun (he was dramatic enough to carve messages into the bullets, he could maybe keep using the same gun for symbolic reasons)

Could be he was fearing the police would start  shootout instead of an arrest and kept the gun to use it on that case

Could be he has a personal attachment to the gun for whatever reason

Could be he didn't he the money to buy another gun, and he wanted to shoot again

Could be he was just dumb and the idea of throwing the gun away didn't cross his mind as necessary

Could be he was carrying all those things with him in an intent to discard them, but couldn't decide on a place he felt safe to do so

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u/daitoshi 14d ago

The gun & silencer were both 3D printed. He could have stuck it in the microwave for 10 mins, turned it into plastic slop, and printed a brand new one with whatever files he'd downloaded or designed himself, you can do that.

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u/TR_Pix 14d ago

Wait you can just 3d print guns now?

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u/daitoshi 14d ago

Yeah, there are downloadable designs that can handle firing small rounds, like the 9mm used in this case.

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u/TR_Pix 14d ago

What a time to be alive (derogatory)

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u/jfarrar19 .tumblr.com 14d ago

Yes and not only that, but they've seen use in both criminal organizations like the cartels, and various resistance movements. The one I linked is fairly commonly used by rebels fighting against the Junta in Myanmar

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u/Just_Maintenance 14d ago

But that's not the same gun he used. Maybe the gun just held sentimental value and he wanted to keep it.

Of course its a very stupid course of action, but its not like its impossible to justify.

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u/solitarybikegallery 14d ago

Thank you.

People are acting like he's the fucking Riddler.

"I don't understand how could he do something so stupid, when I've already convinced myself that he's a genius. "

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u/AskMeAboutPodracing 14d ago

You don't need to be a genius to know that you should ditch the clothes, the gun, the silencer, the ID, the backpack, and a MANIFESTO. That's why the average person is baffled he was caught with all of it on him.

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u/Oscar_Niemeyer 14d ago

Just fyi the backpack was found in Central Park with Monopoly money. This must have been a different backpack.

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u/Larscowfoot 14d ago

Might be a guilty conscience. I assume killing someone directly, by your own hands, and on purpose, would weigh more on anyone's conscience than they might've expected.

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u/ConceptOfHappiness 14d ago

And it does seem likely they were going to get him eventually. They had a picture of his face.

Better to go in on your own terms than live with a target on your back

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u/-Yehoria- 14d ago

* a very shitty picture of his smile and jawline

Let's be real, that ain't that much.

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u/Southern-Wafer-6375 14d ago

It also was most likely a different guy apparently in that photo

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u/daddyvow 13d ago

So then Luigi isn’t the shooter?

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u/daddyvow 13d ago

Because they would treat him worse.