Tennessee passed a bill banning sex changes for minors, as well as essentially classifying drag shows as adult entertainment. The shooter very likely thought her loss of access to children and having to go to an adult club to masturbate equated to genocide.
Why violence? It feeds from frustration. It gets remembered. It affects other people, so that you've left some kind of mark on the world. "I have something [this manifesto] to say and by God, you're going to notice it." It's also fairly easy in some sense.
It's mentally ill people being programmed to believe the entire world is against them.
Tennessee passed a bill banning sex changes for minors, as well as essentially classifying drag shows as adult entertainment. The shooter very likely thought her loss of access to children and having to go to an adult club to masturbate equated to genocide.
Why violence? It feeds from frustration. It gets remembered. It affects other people, so that you've left some kind of mark on the world. "I have something [this manifesto] to say and by God, you're going to notice it." It's also fairly easy in some sense.