From: INVALID_SEE_SIG@example.com.invalid   
      
   In the previous article, Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   > > I can't "know" to a metaphysical certainty, but I can infer from   
   > > available evidence that he was not politically conservative.  (I   
   > > should think that would be uncontroversial.)  That leaves one   
   > > other plausible explanation.   
   >   
   > There is available evidence from people who knew him that   
   > he *WAS* politically conservative.   
   >   
   > On what basis do you discount it?   
      
   On the basis that conservatives don't attempt to murder conservative   
   candidates.  That seems pretty well dispositive.  Furthermore, when   
   his dad heard about the assassination attempt, he called police   
   wondering whether it might have been his son.  That is not a normal   
   reaction for a parent:  "Hey, this thing happened and my son isn't   
   actually in the house right now ... I think it might have been him."   
   There was some basis for that belief.  I don't know what it was in   
   detail, but the fact that he thought it at all is a pretty big clue   
   about what his son went around saying.   
      
   I have seen no evidence that his acquaintances considered him   
   "conservative" but give me a URL and I'll read it.   
      
   It's possible that the assassination wasn't at all political and was   
   the result of some out-there mental illness that doesn't map to any   
   political spectrum.  That's far from unheard of.   
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