I'm sure that he deliberately planned this attack on the last school day before the one year anniversary of the Newtown massacre to reignite the national debate on gun control.
After all, gun rights advocates in Colorado had just recalled two state legislators in special elections and just last week forced the resignation of a third. In his mind, the bastards were winning. He had to do something, so he chose to try to murder his former debate coach in a school shooting, and best of all right on the eve of the anniversary of the Newtown killings.
First they tell us the kid was booted from the debate team and suspended from the school. Then we find out he was NOT booted from the debate team, and NOT suspended from school. Is some kind of false narrative being laid down? Hmmm...
There has been a lot of speculation that Pierson was some kind of leftist, based on his pro-gun control statements and actions:
http://www.krdo.com/news/CO-gunman-liked-debate-but-acted-weird/-/417220/23489324/-/11oqwfr/-/index.html
“He was a weird kid,” (Senior Chris)Davis said. “He’s a self-proclaimed communist, just wears Soviet shirts all the time.”
Though the same link seems to imply he was as much an anti-government patriot:
Junior Daylon Stutz: “He always kind of talked about how America was a communist country, how the government was, like, trying to take us over and stuff.”
Pieerson’s leftist—and anti-government— attitude is even more strange, as he was allegedly hoping to join the elite Air Force Academy once he graduated. Surely he must have known his politics would have counted against him. Or, maybe like Oswald, he was deliberately encouraged to play the part of a dissident to build a ‘legend’ of himself as some kind of malcontent agitator.
As an aside, here’s an example of the strange lessons taught in American schools nowadays:
“...the two shared a human behavior class when Stutz was a freshman and Pierson a sophomore. They worked on a class experiment together in which they went into the community and [b]tried breaking unwritten rules[/b], Stutz said.”