it's hard to tell from the recordings we do have, but yeah, if the guy was planning a shoot-out, he wouldn't bring a 2-shot gun, shoot both slugs into Abe then throw it away, before promptly being tackled, didn't even bring a knife or anything; we know he had another gun that looked like it had a capacity to shoot 9 slugs, but didn't bring it
it's interesting because it suggests a very different sort of mentality than we're "used to" from events like this. like, it was very specifically an assassination and NOT terrorism.
it's hard to tell from the recordings we do have, but yeah, if the guy was planning a shoot-out, he wouldn't bring a 2-shot gun, shoot both slugs into Abe then throw it away, before promptly being tackled, didn't even bring a knife or anything; we know he had another gun that looked like it had a capacity to shoot 9 slugs, but didn't bring it
it's interesting because it suggests a very different sort of mentality than we're "used to" from events like this. like, it was very specifically an assassination and NOT terrorism.