From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Some articles (NYT and Philadelphia Inquirer) quoted classmates   
   to this effect.   
      
   > 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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