Cole Allen: another shooter shaped by elite overproduction

The Washington Hilton has all the luck, one must admit. In 1981 John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan as the then-President entered his limousine outside. At the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, Cole Allen charged a Secret Service checkpoint inside the same hotel with a shotgun, handgun and several knives, minutes after emailing his family a manifesto in which he named himself the "Friendly Federal Assassin". A Secret Service agent was hit but survived because of his body armor. Donald Trump and his cabinet were rushed out of the ballroom while several hundred journalists in evening dress dived under tables. The President later called Allen a "whack job" and a "lone wolf".