I sense a flaw in his plan to use mass murder/suicide to get one.
Lest we forget Reagan’s attempted assassin Hinckley wanted to impress.... Jody Foster (boy was he waaaay off, as she is a carpet cleaner so to speak). Course Hinckley was after Jimmah Cahtah at first— all thoughts aside of that favor.
This great need of the untalented unremarkable to be... noticed.
Perhaps he failed to plot things out in a linear fashion.