And now he will be the social experiment.
What will be interesting is how the case proceeds. Did he actually make a terrorist threat? I can see some 1st Amendment questions in the charge if all he did was carry in a rifle and didn’t make any overt threat.
This is not to defend the sheer stupidity and bad timing. At age 20 people may not attain the wisdom to know when social graces, courtesy and decency should be paramount.
Au contraire. For the purpose of provoking a bankable case, the timing was perfect.