John Miller on Kirk’s Shooter: The Perpetrators ‘Are Selecting Grievances from a Salad Bar,’ That Have No Mooring to Their Upbringing

SCIUTTO: “John, as you know, there‘s so much disinformation swirling about this right from the moment that this crime took place. I‘m not even going to reference it to give it life. But one thing that this case has shown us, I imagine, is the difficulty in profiling in cases like this. You look at this suspect, both parents, registered Republicans. He didn‘t vote in recent elections but was not registered for either party. Some references to conversations with family where he says, where he said that he disagreed with Charlie Kirk, but I imagine that makes it difficult for law enforcement to get ahead of cases like this, right, and profile potential actors in advance.”

MILLER: “Well, Jim, one of the things we‘re seeing and you can go back through just, you know, recent events, whether it was the shooting in Washington, D.C., of the two Israeli embassy employees at the Jewish museum, or the attack on politicians, elected officials in, outside Minneapolis at their homes by an individual posing as a police officer or, you know, the shooting at the church school in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, these things are happening literally every other week. And the actors behind them, the perpetrators are selecting grievances from a salad bar where they mix and match different themes that have no mooring to their upbringing or family beliefs. And a lot of this is driven by people who become lost and isolated, find their way to the internet. Are already angry, depressed, and looking to lash out, and at the back end of that, decide, well, what they‘re going to lash out about.”