How many more of these NPC assassins are there out there?
Given that one of the necessary characteristics is an amoral upbringing... I’d say there is a limitless supply.
Right now AI can be used to determine almost everything you can imagine about a “normie”, and can tailor social media responses specifically to that person so they get locked in literally their own parallel universe. A lot of the comments a person sees on social media are bots, but a lot of them are also people who have been conditioned to live in a parallel universe. This isn’t exactly the same as the MK Ultra mind control but it is mind control, and all of that stuff makes it much easier to make people more vulnerable to the MK Ultra stuff and to locate which ones are more vulnerable.
When people repeat over and over the “Trump is a dangerous Hitler who needs to be taken out before he destroys everything we hold dear” in a person’s echo chamber it primes them for actual physical brain manipulation as well.
The FBI is telling us Crooks had no communications that gave any clues for radicalization. They would have us believe that he became an assassin through no outside input and without communicating or portraying any change from his nice, normal, mentally healthy demeanor. What does that leave? A normal kid just one day becomes a monster? How are we supposed to believe that happens?
If that could happen to Crooks it could happen to many, many people in our society.