Kuachua Brillion Xiong was sentenced to two years in prison after he was caught driving to Washington, D.C., with a carload of firearms and a "hit list" that included the president.
However, the took a strange turn when Xiong began railing about the state of politics in the nation’s capital, rattling off right-wing conspiracy theories, and telling the deputy that “getting a hotel would not be necessary” for his trip.
“Xiong began to attempt to control the conversation and began talking about his disapproval for government due to the sex abuse of children, some of which that has occurred by President Biden,” investigators wrote.
MAGA trump supporters who are PoC or a minority always makes me confused. They really aren't realizing these rallies, they're the butt of the joke, being uncle ruckus.
As easy as it would be to dismiss a lot of people like this as having mental illnesses, he just sounds like you're typical conspiracy believing, far right, Trump supporter. The mental illness may have come into play when he actually decided to act on it, but make no mistake, many, many others are believing and repeating the same rhetoric and just not demented enough to act (yet), and they don't deserve the easy out of "mental illness."
There's no mention of a lawyer or any support, the guys just completely dropped himself in it. Perhaps a very low IQ or some sort of mental health problems that prison is really not going to help.
It's kind of a shame, dude is clearly mentally ill but there's no mention in the article of any attempts to treat it. Just straight to jail. If anything it's just going to worsen in prison and probably end up murdering someone and/or getting murdered.
Is a low IQ correlated to a person's propensity to commit violent acts? As a person with low IQ, I don't feel like prison is either less of a deterent from committing crimes, or less likely to be a reforming experience, but I've never been to prison and recognize that my impressions would only be an anecdote and not something to draw conclusion from.
I honestly do not know how IQ and the ability to judge the future outcomes of ones actions tie together.
I do know that confessing to crimes, and then saying that he'll try to commit those same offences upon release is not a very sensible idea if he values his freedom from prison. On the otherhand perhaps the guy thinks his being a martyr for the cause and his openness will encourage others, time will tell.
To be fair, he probably would benefit more from psychiatric care. He was saying some pretty wild stuff. Being the only person left who can save us all or something like that?