Was the person who made the attempt from the right?
I realize in post truth environment this might not matter. But I'm kind of exasperated because they so clearly created this disturbed young man themselves in our case.
Not just because he was registered republican but the weapon he used, and the entire idea are the right wing way of doing things.
His political views were complex, a bit confused and hard to classify into a single box. He was a bit of both. He was closer to Fico than his opponents (here the dividing lines are different than right/left, so let's say closer to "antidemocratic").
But immediately after the incident this wasn't clear, and there was a firehose of misinformation and cherry picked info to identify him as liberal. They were faster and louder and formed the narrative.
Personally, I feel it's wrong to fill a country with deadly easy to use weapons of war and then spout rhetoric to make people see some neighbors as enemies out to corrupt their children or destroy their culture. Personally, I think it's important to enthusiastically endorse and celebrate our multi-ethnic, multi-religion, multi-cultural reality.
I reject rhetoric that suggests that any group must be eliminated for any others safety.
Many people, especially in Europe, would indeed suggest that Nazis must be eliminated for every others' safety...
(and Checkoslovaks know a little bit about this - cough Heydrich cough)
@futurebird @janbogar AFAIK from articles: he was also a guy who participated in far right initiatives and drank the racist-fash kool-aid.